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I found the Dropbox lecture [1] at Stanford one of the most riveting things ever. There is just so much technology behind Dropbox, it is staggering. There is a

I found the Dropbox lecture [1] at Stanford one of the most riveting things ever. There is just so much technology behind Dropbox, it is staggering. There is a reason why it is so much better than iCloud sync, Google Drive, Box or OneDrive. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc

travbrack 8y ago
This led me to find another loosely related but very entertaining piece of dropbox history. The original "Show HN" post: [1]. It's funny to see so much skepticism knowing now what the company became. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
- billforsternz 8y ago
  Yes, this is one of the classics - right up there with the "less space than a Nomad, no wireless, lame" comment (which wasn't on HN I don't think - but we all know it could have been :) Edit: I see the motherlode is in place earlier in the thread "Especially when you could build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem"
  - mixmastamyk 8y ago
    The iPod comment was from slashdot, if memory serves.
    - wiredfool 8y ago
      Yes. CmdrTaco, when posting to the home page: https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/Apple-releases-iPod https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/Apple-releases-i... (that post is old enough to vote in this year's election).
  - anentropic 8y ago
    ha, that's a nice counterpart to the 'trivial' thread above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18071820 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18071820