It's not often I find technology-related items when reading bedtime stories to my kids, but there it was: Fozzie Bear discovering a cloud computer.

The book in question is "Baby Fozzie On Cloud Nine", written by Barry Keating and copyright 1987. A bunch of Muppet Babies books were given to us by a neighbor, and we've been reading through the stories each night.

The plot in this book is that Fozzie Bear has a really good joke to tell the other Muppet Babies, but they're all busy doing other things. Fozzie gets taken on a journey via his red kite and visits a bunch of other clouds, where the cloud people are attentive and listen to him. Each cloud, however, is specific to a different Muppet, and Fozzie ends up on Cloud 5 where he discovers the cloud computer.

Here's the photographic proof:

I'm sure that if Fozzie stayed on Cloud 5 he would have perfected a way to create software-as-a-service applications that are secure for data sitting in the cloud, but it also looks like the cloud people might not have wanted to do such a thing.