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> because the writer has apparently never heard of a web server. This gives me the initial dropbox dismissal comment (you can do it trivially with ftp) vibe...
by paradite 5y ago
> because the writer has apparently never heard of a web server.
This gives me the initial dropbox dismissal comment (you can do it trivially with ftp) vibe...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- anaisbetts 5y agoSure but the difference was that Dropbox was an order of magnitude more accessible and convenient in its experience. web3 has yet to make anything tangibly better than the thing it wants to replace - only more convoluted, risky, and expensive. It turns operations that were free and instant into operations that cost significant money and take minutes/hours
- Gigachad 5y agoIt's been years, over a decade since bitcoin came out, and still nothing useful came out of it. Dropbox was well understood to be useful shortly after it came out and the initial reactions were over.