Scripting News: Dropbox almost reinvented the web
I was trying to explain to Miguel de Icaza, a longtime developer friend, how Dropbox was within inches of making the web a million times more useful, ten years ago, and then backed away from it. I don’t think I’ve ever told the story here on my blog, so here goes.
I didn’t realize Dropbox had worked on something like this. I think Dave is right, this could have helped establish a platform for a whole ecosystem of small, indie web apps.