SAN FRANCISCO, July 12 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Cloudflare, a leading Internet security, performance, and reliability company, today announced that it has successfully registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office the trademark for the phrase, “The Network is the Computer.” Cloudflare took on this trademark as it embodies the company’s approach to utilizing its network to pave the way for the future of the Internet.
The phrase was first coined in 1984 by John Gage, the 21st employee of Sun Microsystems, where he was credited with building Sun’s vision around “The Network is the Computer.” When Sun was acquired in 2010, the trademark was not renewed, but the vision remained.