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Netlify made this 10 years ago... they even copied the name! https://app.netlify.com/drop https://app.netlify.com/drop
by andrethegiant 3mo ago
Netlify made this 10 years ago... they even copied the name! https://app.netlify.com/drop https://app.netlify.com/drop
- brightball 3mo agoThere are numerous products like this out there. Isn’t that where Dropbox got its name in the first place?
- latchkey 3mo agoDon't forget Digital Ocean Droplets.
- frankdenbow 3mo agoOr Drop.io which got bought by Meta
- neom 3mo agoFWIW, We called them droplets because drop of water in the (Digital)Ocean.
- scubbo 3mo agoI was always under the impression that that was referencing the notion from spycraft.
- hoherd 3mo agoI thought it was a reference to the Mac OS X `~/Public/Drop Box` directory, which was a write-only place for people to send files to your user, which has been around since the first OS X beta came out in 2000.
- jamesfinlayson 3mo agoI vaguely remember being told to put assignments in a drop box (like a mail box on campus) in the mid 2000s at least, and I'm sure it wasn't a new concept then.
- jmaw 3mo agoI haven't done that on campus, but I've left my keys in the mechanic's key drop box when dropping of a car overnight!
- hoherd 3mo agoOh dang, you're right. Mac OS X was my first Mac OS, but it looks like the Drop Box concept existed long before OS X. Here's a reference from 1991 titled "AppleShare Drop Box: Access for System 6 and 7 Clients" https://www.savagetaylor.com/TIL/TIL09033.pdf https://www.savagetaylor.com/TIL/TIL09033.pdf
- lelandfe 3mo agoA term still used on Tahoe. Right click a file in Finder, Get Info. A file permissions option is "Write only (Drop Box)"
- forgotusername6 3mo agoA drop box is a real physical thing, where you drop items for other people to collect.
- tech234a 3mo agoAnd BitBalloon before that (which Netlify acquired) http://web.archive.org/web/20131028083240/https://www.bitballoon.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20131028083240/https://www.bitbal...
- dmillar 3mo agoLow barrier services don't care who's first in this epoch.
- ares623 3mo agoBut this time it's with ~blockchain~ AI!
- wartywhoa23 3mo agoOh, how I miss the golden days of blockchain hype so much. The luxury blockchain resort island is just soaking somewhere in the ocean, collecting dust and guano, while its former inhabitants are all the rage about AI now :'(
- r_lee 3mo agoouch... I get that it's a simple concept but darn it really does seem like ctrl c ctrl v lmao
- giancarlostoro 3mo agoIts not exactly a very elaborate name.
- arm32 3mo agoMy... Aviato?
- giancarlostoro 3mo agoInfatrode, wtf is Infatrode (I might be butchering it, course it is an Office Space reference) He was my absolute favorite character in that show.
- floydnoel 3mo agoI think it was Initrode. I used to watch it every day haha
- giancarlostoro 3mo agoThey intentionally butchered it I think but it still cracked me up
- oasisbob 3mo agoElaborate enough? Funny story: I used to work for a startup which had a trademark on "Airdrop". When Apple announced that feature, it took everyone there by surprise. Ended up reaching out and selling it to them for a buck or two in favor of maintaining goodwill.
- inventor7777 3mo agoHa, that's funny. When you say "a buck or two" do you really mean it was almost nothing or did Apple compensate you appropriately? I'm also surprised that Apple didn't catch that before if it was trademarked.
- hliyan 3mo agoIsn't this what we used to do with Geocities a quarter century ago? And with most other websites that offered FTP upload? You didn't have to be very technical -- there were windows FTP clients where you could just type in the IP, username, password and see an explorer-like view, onto which you could just drag and drop your HTML and image files.
- xnx 3mo agoMost browsers even had (read only?) FTP clients built in.