Reality check: Prior to DropBox, I had used LiveDrive, which was featured in HN, for about six months, but I don't really remember for how long. It was a beta,

Reality check: Prior to DropBox, I had used LiveDrive, which was featured in HN, for about six months, but I don't really remember for how long. It was a beta, and the free plan was over once the beta was over. But it was a great and fully functional implementation of the concept. For the first months of DropBox, it was known as 'a LiveDrive alternative'. The only real innovation of DropBox over LiveDrive was the free plan. Which I'm still using for free.