History of Cloud Computing (1) The concept of Cloud Computing came into existence in the year 1950.At around in 1961, John MacCharty suggested in a speech at MIT that computing can be sold like a utility, just like a water or electricity.The technology caught that idea and since then, cloud computing has been evolved from static clients to dynamic ones and from software to services.In 1999, Salesforce.com started delivering of applications to users using a simple website.This proves that today, cloud computing has become mainstream.