Nice remembrance of ahead-of-it's-time Yahoo! Pipes.
(Presumably Retool published it as a little way to say *Remember that? That was cool. But like, we can do that stuff too, now, better.")
I remember stitching RSS feeds together in Pipes and loving it. I feel like Zapier is a bit more pipes-like these days though.
God yes, used to use Yahoo! Pipes to mash up RSS feeds from various music sites and get a feed of upcoming local gigs in iGoogle.
Web 1.0 was great.
@chriscoyier