Seattle, Washington - Shawna Bogan, Amazon junior marketing associate on the Kindle team, revealed on Tuesday that she invented cloud computing on a lunch break in April 2008. The revelation sent Shockwaves through an industry that has been gradually building a foundation on such market-speak as "hosted services" "Software as a Service," "cloudsourcing," and "cloud-storming" among other ridiculous nonsense. Indeed, the market has seen an explosion of new business ventures whose very existence hinges on a notion that is now revealed to be false.
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