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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 skeptici
by 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 agoYes, 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 agoThe iPod comment was from slashdot, if memory serves.
- wiredfool 8y agoYes. 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 agoha, that's a nice counterpart to the 'trivial' thread above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18071820 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18071820