In the olden days, computers were very expensive so one company would buy a computer and rent cpu time and storage space to other companies. This service was called "time-sharing".

The Cloud is just time-sharing with a bunch of mumbo-jumbo added in and - just possibly - a new feature or three.

Time-sharing was discarded by organizations as computers became cheap to purchase and run.

Since they continute to get cheaper and easier to run, I'm not expecting a big move back to time-sharing.

Then again, 50% of all people are dumber than average (or is that just "mean" on my part 😎 ), so this might become popular after all.