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Dropbox in 1996
- bluesign 14y agoit was getdropbox.com at its launch AFAIK.
- ari_elle 14y agoAm i mistaken when saying that the website's design is pretty good for 1996?
- mattdeboard 14y agoDon't be a fool, I don't see a single <blink> tag. How can this be considered "good"???
- Vivtek 14y agoNo starry background, either. How are we supposed to know it's in Cyberspace?
- TillE 14y agoThe layout is good enough, but the graphic design is still painfully amateurish.
- barrynolan 14y agoAlways fascinating to go back in time. Have a look at Twilio http://web.archive.org/web/20081216031744/http://www.twilio.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20081216031744/http://www.twilio.... What's interesting is the consistency of message to this day - simplicity, pay as you go, no Shenanigans Pricing, no contract.
- mattdeboard 14y agoWhile 2008 is technically "back in time" the OP is interesting because technologically 1996 was another era. 2008 was a few years ago. "To this day" indeed.
- Ecio78 14y agoAnother era but, more important, another service...
- falava 14y agoThey launched with the domain getdropbox.com and only after being succesful they were able to buy the real dropbox.com from the previous owner.
- ward 14y ago> Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, two MIT students tired of emailing files to themselves to work from more than one computer. https://www.dropbox.com/about https://www.dropbox.com/about