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[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago

Specialty folder which did automatic syncing between devices.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Cloud syncing without a subscription? What is this, socialism?

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Wasn't even cloud. Just local device connected by cable. I know mystery how that worked. We kind of asked for dystopia thoug. I remember people complaining about having one extra cable.

[-] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 points 2 years ago

The cloud hadn't even been invented back then. It was all nonstop sunshine 24/7 so you had to close Windows from time to time in order to get any sleep.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

device connected by cable

How’s that not cloud?

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You did a dial up from home.

[-] d00ery@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I remember the icon, but I never knew that was it's purpose.

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Unless you had pocket PC or PDA you never needed to touch it. And those were expensive business toys back in the day.

When I was a kid I scored a Compaq iPaq for cheap on eBay. I even got the expansion pack for it that slid over the device with a dial up modem. When we would travel away from home, I could get on MSN messenger and chat with friends on there. I thought that was pretty cool at the time.

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Oh. Same. I had HP iPaq and loved that thing. Used it as smart phone and had a dumb phone next to it. I was so proud of my setup.

[-] HessiaNerd@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[-] stoly@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

This is a year or two before USB. Windows 98 was the first with built in USB support.

[-] HessiaNerd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I was using briefcase in 2001 or so. You probably could have used it with a zip drive or superdisk before that. But

I hated floppies. I lost so much data on them. They were very unreliable. I actually lost an internship because a floppy failed when I was trying to use it. Rather than blaming the person who was stupid enough to rely on a floppy as the SOLE location of that info, they blamed me. It held AutoCAD drawings that were going in and out of a machine shop. I'm still bitter.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You’re a better person than they ever were. Just remember that you’ll never blame an innocent intern for the mistakes of others.

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Trying to remember if those existed at the time. And am not remembering anything.

[-] HessiaNerd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Apparently it wasn't removed till win 10....

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/24426-add-briefcase-new-context-menu-windows-10-a.html

I didn't use it before USB drives cause we usually used laplink to transfer big file collections...

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Oh wow. I did not know that. I remember it during Win 95/98 era.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Oh! Today I learned that the briefcase was for. Thanks!

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You are welcome. Am not sure even people who had pocket PC used it. I had HP iPaq and that one came with it's own suite for syncing.

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