What is Dropbox?
Dropbox is a file hosting service provided one of the American company named 'Dropbox Incorporation'. It was released in the year 2008 and used as a cloud storage, file synchronization and client software. The company was established in the year 2007 with the efforts of Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, as a Y Combinator startup company. The service can be availed at wide number of platforms such as Mobile devices, computers, laptops and ipads which run on different operating systems Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, mobile operating softwares such as Android, iOS, Blackberry OS and web browsers etc. The code of this service is written in Python a high level programming language. The service Act as an online backup service that is quite useful for people as it does not to carry memory devices with oneself. The Idea of developing this type of service came into the mind of Drew Houston while he was a student at MIT and everytime he forget USB flash drive at his home which force him to develop an online backup service. Over 200 million users take benefit of the service and everyday a billion files are processed. The service is applauded by many popular newspaper published in the country such as 'The New York Times', 'PC Magazine', 'The Economist' and 'The Washington Post'.