[fermienrico]

I found the Dropbox lecture [1] at Stanford one of the most riveting things ever. There is just so much technology behind Dropbox, it is staggering.

There is a reason why it is so much better than iCloud sync, Google Drive, Box or OneDrive.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc

[travbrack]

This led me to find another loosely related but very entertaining piece of dropbox history. The original "Show HN" post: [1]. It's funny to see so much skepticism knowing now what the company became.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

[billforsternz]

Yes, this is one of the classics - right up there with the "less space than a Nomad, no wireless, lame" comment (which wasn't on HN I don't think - but we all know it could have been :)

Edit: I see the motherlode is in place earlier in the thread "Especially when you could build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem"

[anentropic]

ha, that's a nice counterpart to the 'trivial' thread above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18071820

[mixmastamyk]

The iPod comment was from slashdot, if memory serves.

[wiredfool]

Yes. CmdrTaco, when posting to the home page:

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/Apple-releases-i...

(that post is old enough to vote in this year's election).