[OJFord]

DanG's thoughts on the comment/'meme' you're referring to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29178442

It seems he's given up fighting it in recent years, but I doubt his view or the facts have changed, and they're worth reading.

[petters]

Dang writes:

> about Dropbox's YC application (which is what the word "app" meant back then)

But Drew Houston himself writes in the reply "most apps are written as if the disk was local". So the word "app" could definitely mean a program running on your computer as well.