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Re:Write plain text files by Swizec on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @08:14PM (#30522405)
> The number of files with names like “Report Final Final draft v3.docx” is truly staggering.

iirc this was the original pitch for Dropbox

> “Git for everything“ would be a multi-billion dollar startup easily.

Dropbox is valued at 8.5 billion

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Re:Write plain text files by ovao on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @08:46PM (#30522624)
Dropbox version history is limited to 30 days (free plan) or 180 days (paid plan)[1].

I like Dropbox, but for documents, 30 days worth of version history is not fantastic.

[1]: https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/restore-delete/versio...

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Re:Write plain text files by squeaky-clean on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @08:51PM (#30522663)
The original pitch was "throw away your usb drive", I don't think file history came about until after 2010, but I'm not too sure and modern Google makes it impossible to find anything older than 2 years ago...

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

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Re:Write plain text files by slightwinder on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @11:51AM (#30529436)
It's not that hard to search for old content on google. Just limit the year in the search filter. Anyway, I found mentions of this feature up to 2008 back. I guess it was there since mostly the beginning.

From Sep 15, 2008: https://www.maketecheasier.com/dropbox-backs-up-and-syncs-fi...

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