By time-sharing, I meant an operating system that permits each user of a computer to behave as though he were in sole control of a computer, not necessarily identical with the machine on which the operating system is running. | john mccarthy, reminiscences on the history of time sharing, 1983

from batch computing to time-shared computing to personal computing to time shared computing (cloud) to ...

before ccitt allowed mail they invented teletex. not to be mixed up with teletext, though. | thanks for the hint ;)

In Europe most research projects in the area of Office Information Systems are concentrated around public communication services and transmission networks. Very few projects exist in what we call the Automated Office of the Future. | naja naffah, office information systems research and development, SIGOA conference, 1982, acm lib.