Unsurprisingly it was a huge success, and almost a decade after it first launched Dropbox now has over half a billion users globally with 1.2 billion files uploaded to the service every single day by individuals as well as enterprise customers. Users can share files with others and the whole service was free - at least for those without the need to store a huge amount of data. In Houston’s case, while he was a student at MIT, he found he consistently forgot the USB key containing his files on it and the file sharing services which were available in 2007 simply didn’t meet his needs, with problems like latency, buggy software and inability to handle big files among his major gripes.Īnd so Houston created Dropbox, a simple service which allows users to store files online while also syncing their files to folders on their PCs, laptops and smartphones.

Like most internet services, Dropbox was created because its founder - Drew Houston - couldn’t find a solution to a problem which satisfied his needs.

What is dropbox and how to use it