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Netlify made this 10 years ago... they even copied the name! https://app.netlify.com/drop

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And BitBalloon before that (which Netlify acquired) http://web.archive.org/web/20131028083240/https://www.bitbal...

Loved this app. What is old is new again.

BitBalloon was the original project from Matt, the founder of Netlify!

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

Don't forget Digital Ocean Droplets.

Or Drop.io which got bought by Meta

FWIW, We called them droplets because drop of water in the (Digital)Ocean.

I was always under the impression that that was referencing the notion from spycraft.

I 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.

I 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.

Oh 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

I 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!

A term still used on Tahoe. Right click a file in Finder, Get Info. A file permissions option is "Write only (Drop Box)"

A drop box is a real physical thing, where you drop items for other people to collect.

Isn't this what we used to do with Geocities a quarter century ago? And with most other websites that offered FTP upload? You didn't have to be very technical -- there were windows FTP clients where you could just type in the IP, username, password and see an explorer-like view, onto which you could just drag and drop your HTML and image files.

Most browsers even had (read only?) FTP clients built in.

Its not exactly a very elaborate name.

My... Aviato?

Infatrode, wtf is Infatrode

(I might be butchering it, course it is an Office Space reference)

He was my absolute favorite character in that show.

I think it was Initrode. I used to watch it every day haha

They intentionally butchered it I think but it still cracked me up

Elaborate enough?

Funny story: I used to work for a startup which had a trademark on "Airdrop". When Apple announced that feature, it took everyone there by surprise. Ended up reaching out and selling it to them for a buck or two in favor of maintaining goodwill.

Ha, that's funny. When you say "a buck or two" do you really mean it was almost nothing or did Apple compensate you appropriately? I'm also surprised that Apple didn't catch that before if it was trademarked.

It rounded down to nothing. Might have been $10 or $100 to make it real consideration.

Why did you value Apple's goodwill more than a couple million dollars?

We were a provider very intimately dependent on Apple's ecosystem and had no appetite whatsoever for a fight.

Low barrier services don't care who's first in this epoch.

But this time it's with ~blockchain~ AI!

Oh, how I miss the golden days of blockchain hype so much.

The luxury blockchain resort island is just soaking somewhere in the ocean, collecting dust and guano, while its former inhabitants are all the rage about AI now :'(

ouch... I get that it's a simple concept but darn it really does seem like ctrl c ctrl v lmao

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