Will the “Clouds” bring us back to the dialup era?

Back in the old days of dialup we used to joke that if someone wanted to send a picture or, boy even worse, a video clip he should better put it in a disk and hand it over the next day rather than sending it by email. It would be faster, cheaper (dialup was priced on a time usage basis) and more reliable.

Things seem to go back to were we started 15 years ago, Amazon gives its Web Services (cloud storage) users the option to send their data via standard postal service. They think it’s ineffective to send 1TB of data across a 10Mbps network, and they are probably right.

I like these types of news, residing in the edges of tragedy and comedy. It proves the notion supported by more and more fiber fans around the world that broadband is a lot more than faster p2p downloads and better quality video broadcasting.

Gigaom reports.