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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Let's see you put a server in the cloud and expect it to stay there as it's too heavy and would fall and break on impact. 
Actually, it's a server farm. That's the term used before someone decided to try and hijack the word cloud. |
As an avid reader (assumed by your participation here) you must know that language is not static; it evolves. Most modern dictionaries already carry special sense to cover Internet storage.
It is curious to note the OED carries the obsolete sense: "A mass of rock; a hill".
And there is a still current sense: "Anything that obscures or conceals", and also: "Anything that darkens or overshadows with gloom".
So I'm starting to think the use of Cloud for Internet storage could be apt indeed.
