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Comment by notpushkin

9 hours ago

I thought about it for a bit, but I’m worried the author might not recognize this copypasta and try to answer it on its face value.

(It is, of course, the famous Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863#9224)

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Imustaskforhelp  8 hours ago

Haha. I guess I had heard the story of dropbox, why not ftp, but I guess this was the story!

I guess it is funny to me that SVN/CVS was there in 2007 since I think git wasn't even invented at the time but now new people won't even know what SVN/CVS are, I only got to know them because I wanted to download a specific folder of github and some stackoverflow comment mentioned svn

  • notpushkin  8 hours ago

    Apparently, the first version of Git was released in 2005, but I’m not sure a lot of people have heard about it before GitHub has been launched in 2008.

    Wild times! (I was 10, my preferred source control system was “eh I have a backup somewhere I think”.)