Clouds

Why did they decide to call storing your data remotely storing it "in the cloud"? I don't get it.

It's a rebranding of a concept they introduced earlier that never caught on. A lot of businesses were very wary about storing their entire livelihood in out-of-house data storage centers. They didn't want anyone to have total control over their data, because if they lose that they lose everything.

Good news: It is possible to store a lot of data in a small place on physical media you can get your hands on if and when needed.

There are Fluo-Ray discs that can hold ten terabytes of data (equivalent to 200 hours of video in 4K resolution):

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/forget-about-blu-ray-fluo-ray-discs-may-well-be-the-future-of-optical-data-storage-with-10tb-capacities-for-1/ar-AA1z9QYE

And there are data crystals that can store 360 terabytes of data (equivalent to 7200 hours of video in 4K resolution):

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2024/09/human-genome-stored-on-everlasting-memory-crystal-.page

kill him now