That's funny...I've never thought of it that way, taking Github and AWS S3 so much for granted these days...but one of things students really liked in a class I taught on using the Unix shell was the ability to automate the pushing of files to their school account folder and have it show up immediately at stanford.edu/~theirusername
It's still pretty cool in this day and age of PaaS, and well, social networks...but was much more revolutionary in the pre-MySpace days (and post-MySpace too, if you had something you wanted to post that deserved a little more gravitas than a social media wall post)
It's still pretty cool in this day and age of PaaS, and well, social networks...but was much more revolutionary in the pre-MySpace days (and post-MySpace too, if you had something you wanted to post that deserved a little more gravitas than a social media wall post)