"The Network is the Computer" is a slogan that was originally coined by John Gage for Sun Microsystems in 1984.
[1][2][3][4][5] Contrary to popular belief, the slogan was not coined by Scott McNealy.
According to Sun's former director of CAD/CAM marketing, the meaning of the slogan is that you had one window into the network through your desktop computer and that with the appropriate software, other people's computing power could be utilized with offloading.
In 2010, Oracle bought Sun but without the slogan being discussed, used or defended.
In July 2019, content delivery network provider Cloudflare bought the rights to the expired trademark.