Just how popular is the cloud?

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>be me
>fixing father's phone (removing the back cover)
>"How do I use the cloud Anon?"
>I don't know shit about the cloud other than what I read on /g/
>"You need to hire a cloud service!", I say with the confidence of someone who knows what he's talking about
>mother is watching
>palms are sweaty
>hands are heavy
>both look worried that I might drop the phone
>"Anon, Just what is the cloud?", father asks
>"Someone else's computer!", I yell
>mother and father jump back
>"Another computer", I correct myself
>"No, it's everyone's computers in a network", says mother
>"Who owns the computer", asks father at the same time
>"The jews!", by the time I thought about not saying that the words had already left my mouth
>mother and father are aghast
>total silence while I'm trying to add a new microSD to father's phone
>mother and father keep their looks away the whole time
>I break the silence "It's not everyone's computer. It's a computer"
>"Everything couldn't fit in a single computer. It would be too big, Nobody could own such computer!", speaks father sounding as if he was speaking to a retarded child
>"Right, it has to be the network", mother interjects
>"Yes. I read years ago that the NASA uses your computer to do some calculations without you even knowing. The cloud is something like that", concludes father
>I don't know which one of the implied misconceptions I should address, and noting my dumbfounded face, father says:
>"Then tell me; Where is the computer? Exactly where? Physically. Just tell me where the cloud is physically! Obviously it isn't an actual cloud! It can't be!"
>("In Austin, Texas"), I yell in my mind; but I am unable to understand how I reached that conclusion
>while I am there with a confused look trying to figure out why I thought that, mother and father laugh at me because of how fucking stupid I am

Why does it have to hurt so much?