tldr; Crypto is not an isolated movement, but has drawn heavily from developments in cloud computing and open source. The driving force behind crypto as well as these related movements is that code and data benefit from being shared. While a traditional cloud computing service is managed by a single 3rd party, blockchains are managed collectively by a community (e.g. node operators in Ethereum).
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