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There are numerous products like this out there. Isn’t that where Dropbox got its name in the first place?
by brightball 3mo ago
There 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.