User:Mick Ahearn

The "CLOUD ICON" that we all use and recognize today was "invented" by Mick Ahearn at AT&T

In around and about 1991, I (Mick Ahearn) was a Marketing/Product Manager at AT&T in New Jersey. We would frequently have meetings and discussions about how AT&T could deliver Global Call Connections from any phone, any where, anytime. We would draw loosely-based Network Diagrams and there was always a need to show SOMETHING about where the call goes to get completed after leaving anyone's hometown. Mick Ahearn went to the easel pad in 1991 or 1992 and drew a cloud referring to where all those connections always happened. From then on, the "Cloud Icon" had been created and it still represents the "Magic" that occurs when voice or data is sent to and delivered from the Cloud today. The CLoud Icon made what seemed so ununderstandable to understandable without being too confusion and ununderstandable.