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for not using gmail? The hooked me in school
by totetsu 6y ago
for not using gmail? The hooked me in school
- Alekhine 6y agoHe means there used to be a time when people would mail binaries to each other more often, before they got too big and DRM'ed for that.
- bawolff 6y agoThere was also a time when alt.binaries was a thing (technically not email, but usenet is pretty similar)
- Nasrudith 6y agoFor not sending binaries by email - there is no shame to being young in this case as it means never developing the bad habits. Before Dropbox and similiar it was far more a norm and various file sharing systems like SharePoint may wind up not actually used. Non-computer technical people often do so in companies all the time and practically use it as an ersatz version control system to the cringe of IT.
- totetsu 6y agoThis WebRTC p2p file transfer has been a revelation for me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23023675 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23023675
- Akronymus 6y agoWe "thankfully" have shared folders we can use to drop stuff to specific users. But most of our software lives on a RDP server anyways.