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		edvinbesic on March 23, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Early Posts From Tech Founders Who Changed The Wor... "Every time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on your friend's laptop, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a single tear." Made me chuckle, and then kind of sad since this is still standard practice for a lot of people I know.

liviu- on March 23, 2015 [–]

What are the state of the art alternatives? FTPS? Dropbox?

edvinbesic on March 23, 2015 | | [–]

Personally i use dropbox, we transfer or self hosted depending on the content and who I am sending it to.

ashmud on March 23, 2015 | | [–]

Web-based email providers that switch to Dropbox-like services when attachments are too large for email?

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