in the cloud
Whenever you see an illustration in a magazine or newspaper about how the Internet works, there is usually a cloud drawn in the top portion of the picture to represent the technology and data transfer processes. Since these are too complex to illustrate in a simple diagram, they are shown as happening "in the cloud."
See also : cloud
NetLingo Classification: Online Jargon
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