From: ozsj	Date: August 1st, 2008 06:34 pm (UTC)		(Link)
Damn you guys are fast...

I still can't believe this went unnoticed for almost 18 months!

Sam

	From: vatine	Date: August 1st, 2008 08:55 pm (UTC)		(Link)

You can (probably) make that "over two decades". I used ISO 7-bump clouds to designate "network, specifics not necessary for this drawing" in, er, 1993 at least. My impression at the time was that it was well-established symbology.

	From: mauser	Date: August 2nd, 2008 04:56 am (UTC)		(Link)

Back in the late '80's when Apple ran a contest for "Design the Personal Computer of the future" among their consortium schools, I wrote Drexel's second entry alone. I proposed a networked distributed computing system. Basically everyone's personal computers could Compute stuff for others during their idle time.

The Official entry from Drexel was a computer build from bits that plugged together like Lego bricks as the Bus.