system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Can somebody explain Cloud technology to me?

How does it work? How do I use it? What are the risks? Is there any privacy?
gpt
'Cloud 'is a marketing buzzword that doesn't mean much other than client-server communications (your computer communicating with another computer that sends you data). It's used to sell services that allow you to store files on servers (but that's been around since the 90s) instead of keeping them on your computer.

However, 'Cloud' can also be used to refer to cloud hosting providers that store websites on servers across the world to provide a lower latency for users downloading them.

As you can see, there's nothing to get excited about really. It's nothing new, just a vague word slapped on to different services to make them sellable to the uninformed.