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I had an (evil; don't do this) idea a while back to create a Dropbox-like program that stores all your data as binary chunks attached to draft emails spread acr
by _bxg1 8y ago
I had an (evil; don't do this) idea a while back to create a Dropbox-like program that stores all your data as binary chunks attached to draft emails spread across an arbitrary number of free email accounts.
- mmastrac 8y agoThis existed just after gmail launched. Can't recall the name of the program, but I played around with it to store a few hundred MB in a test account.
- hcs 8y agoGmailFS? https://web.archive.org/web/20060424165737/http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060424165737/http://richard.jo...
- mmastrac 8y agoThat might have been it!
- follower 8y agoYeah, there were a couple of different ones wrote a bit more about them in a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19917018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19917018
- qntty 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMail_Drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMail_Drive
- follower 8y agoDefinitely would make an interesting learning exercise--I learned way more about SMTP/POP protocols* than I did before when I implemented demonstration SMTP/POP servers for my libgmail library before Gmail offered alternate means of access. These days there's even the luxury of IMAP. :D [*] About the only thing I remember now is the `HELO` and `EHLO` protocol start messages. :)
- quickthrower2 8y agoI had an evil idea to create a key/value storage using HN dead comments.
- derivagral 8y agoDid this as a college project with a friend, was pretty fun. Nowadays stuff like Dropbox is much more convenient and reliable.