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  • davidagain@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It was a zip file, essentially. You drag files into it, then you drag it to your usb memory stick and take it to work. At wprk, you drag it from the usb drive to your briefacse on the work computer and it updates with the newer copies. That’s about as much as I remember.

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      5 months ago

      This is before usb. It was a dialup synchronizer between your work pc and your home one so that you could keep working on that Word doc.

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        5 months ago

        Wow, I had definitely forgotten about briefcase. I remember clicking on it as a kid but don’t specifically recall what happened. There was no work computer for my folks, my mom worked at home (essentially), so I’m pretty sure it did nothing. I do remember being unsure of its function. I was young though so I was unsure about much.

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          I was at least barely an adult but not a professional so it had no function for me lol

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        I don’t think this was explicitly network connected? I’m fairly certain the original responder is mostly correct, except it would be a floppy disk instead of a USB drive.