You know.. RSS killed pointcast. Pointcast was actually much more like google reader, it was an app that would grab news from your favorite sites, and show you in the application, or as your screensaver. it was so popular, many companies banned it outright, because it had the effect of killing the bandwidth on very expensive at the time T1 lines when half the employee's computers tried to download tons of news sites at the start of every hour.
RSS came out later, if I remember right, as a way to do this without killing internet connections. you could grab the feeds, but only download the content when you were ready to read it.
pointcast was actually really nice. Now get off my lawn, you damn kids
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You know.. RSS killed pointcast. Pointcast was actually much more like google reader, it was an app that would grab news from your favorite sites, and show you in the application, or as your screensaver. it was so popular, many companies banned it outright, because it had the effect of killing the bandwidth on very expensive at the time T1 lines when half the employee's computers tried to download tons of news sites at the start of every hour.
RSS came out later, if I remember right, as a way to do this without killing internet connections. you could grab the feeds, but only download the content when you were ready to read it.
pointcast was actually really nice. Now get off my lawn, you damn kids
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PointCast_%28dotcom%29