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human
ELI5 - what makes "the cloud" different from "the internet"

What's the big deal?

I don't understand what makes the cloud so special.  It lets you work on and store things that live somewhere other than your computer, right?  Hasn't the internet been doing that for years?

Hasn't gmail, yahoo, hotmail and any other web-based mail client being doing that for years too?
gpt
"The cloud" is just a buzzword that represents some form of off-site storage. The internet itself, is as you described, an example of 'cloud' computing. People use it nowadays to mean more than just storing e-mail somewhere. There are 'cloud servers' (example: Amazon's cloud service), which not only host data, but provide TONS of computing power to act on that data. It's cheaper for businesses than setting up their own environments and maintaining them, hence the appeal (especially to management, which is why it's a buzzword in the first place).