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That wasn't a prediction. He, like anybody other academic connected to the Internet of that era had been enjoying drop box like services for years. Both at wo
by jmount 14y ago
That wasn't a prediction. He, like anybody other academic connected to the Internet of that era had been enjoying drop box like services for years. Both at work, and if you added the correct digital service in the home. I lot was done with FTP at the time and there were a lot of specialized clients that did some really neat stuff. So the statement was more like: other people are really going to enjoy some of the luxuries I already have.
- rscale 14y agoYou're right. In 1996 my home directory was stored on an Andrew File System folder that allowed me to securely authenticate from untrusted networks using Kerberos, and then access my files remotely, from multiple machines, and it used local cache used to keep things speedy. It was incredibly strange that these sorts of capabilities weren't meaningfully commercialized, even though they were ridiculously useful.