I genuinely laugh every time at that comment every time this gets reposted, as i...

thaumaturgy · on March 23, 2018

HN had a higher percentage of people at that time that would've considered that to be a reasonable alternative to Dropbox.

BrandonM · on March 24, 2018

Hacker News used to be for hackers.

DataWorker · on March 24, 2018

Thanks for this comment and the one about ftp. I also didn’t see the difference between Facebook and MySpace. It’s hard to understand the money side of reality until you are older and have seen some things.

raverbashing · on March 23, 2018

Even funnier, using cvs (LOL) or even svn over effing unsecure FTP was already wrong at the time.

(Oh and of course it was the most voted comment, the 2nd one had more legitimate concerns)