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Was this just like s/ftp accounts? Or something more complex like a 1996 dropbox? It was a mounted filesystem in your machine?

• LinuxBender 3y ago
  It was a drive letter mounted on your Windows machine or a mount point on Linux. I forgot what protocol was used and I never personally used it as I had my own SFTP servers. On Windows people would run an app but I think it was just mounting a SMB drive. I only handled the backend storage, HP-UX servers and DNS for them. Other people managed the Windows servers and their company managed the applications.
  • swozey 3y ago
    Neat. I was 10 back then but I remember having to deal with IPX networking to play Warcraft 1-2 with my dad, and over Mplayer, or some sort of online game service IIRC. Never really thought about how you'd do a mounted network share back then. IPX was a pain but we had no idea what we were doing back then. edit: Oh duh, battlenet.. sigh, my how blizzard has changed.
  • devin 3y ago
    I'm going to take a guess this was FUSE.
    • fragmede 3y ago
      FUSE was 2004, so it's anyone's guess.
    • NikkiA 3y ago
      More likely to be WebDAV, which was the 'great hope' for cloud storage before it was called cloud.