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Entry from January 31, 2010

Why print is dead

I've spent way too much time today reading the website / blog of Dave Winer, the inventor of modern RSS and podcasting, and one of the earliest bloggers. His site has been operational as a blog since 1997, and his archives date back to 1994 — probably something you could classify as a blog despite the lack of the term in those early days of the web. And he's got many key moments in the web's evolution recorded. Watching the web evolve over the last fifteen years has been roughly equivalent to watching civilization progress from the Bronze Age to the early days of spaceflight.

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Posted January 31, 2010 @ 23:35:23 EST. 3 comments.comment Share: Twitter Facebook Email Digg