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Cloud Computing; Explain it like I'm Five!

I keep hearing this term come up, and I was wondering if someone could give me an understanding of what exactly it means.
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Say you're a baker and you bake cakes.  You have two ovens so you can bake two cakes at a time.  Sometimes you need to make 3 or 4 cakes at once, but can't do that because you only have 2 ovens.  So you just bake them one after the other.  This is traditional computing.

There is a man in town with 50 ovens.  Whenever the bakers need to use ovens, they just use his, for a small fee.  This way, if we need to bake 4 or 5 cakes at a time, we can, but if we don't need as many we don't have to rent as many from the man.  Translating ovens to computers, this, in essence, is cloud computing.