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By Adam Gaffin
Network World Fusion 05/19/03

Keith notes the growing excitement over RSS aggregators as a desktop platform, but tries to dampen things down with recollections of similar work in the early '90s to build an open-source front end to CompuServe (remember them?):

So...in the course of a dozen years, we've moved from tree-navigable, threaded view of content of interest to..the same thing? From a 200K redistributable to something closer to 20MB (times 3 on disk)? A complete develoment environment came on three floppies to one that ships on 6 CDs? From an (ASCII) character stream to an (XML) character stream. From VB to ... C#? And this is supposed to be earth-shaking progress? I'm underwhelmed.
Note: You can download some RSS aggregators to play with in our Downloads area.

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