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Yeah, and Dropbox is just rsync and scp :)

Dropbox orginally used an rsync library

And windows could originally fit on five 5.25" disks.

Re Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

I still use USB sticks for a variety of purposes. I also still use FTP

I stopped using Windows many, many years ago. The company behind it now runs a dubiously consensual "botnet" (C&C, RCE) called "Windows Update"

Dropbox as I understand it was a company that wanted people to store their personal files on someone else's computers

This is the antithesis of "self-hosting" which what the OP is about

If that's all that was necessary then I feel like a lot of these SaaS tools wouldn't be as popular. I suspect a lot of Tailscale's success is because wireguard is not easy nor does it solve the full problem space (i.e. discovery). With `tailscale serve` I can get a private HTTPS endpoint to my local machine in almost no time.

presumably somewhat more like nebula