Gregory's Server
(I phrased that like I was joking but there are people on here who really do that, who have that healthy of a relationship with technology. The internet stays in its box until it's summoned for a specific task, then when it's done being useful or amusing, back in the box it goes. They don't look at internet when they're bored or between things, they don't allow it to pester their pockets with notifications, they do internet only on their schedule. More of these people on Fedi than elsewhere)
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@Longplay_Games @ifixcoinops same! i think i used AvantGo? or something like that. downloaded my feeds and read them on my palm pilot @ifixcoinops I need to go back to making ebooks of rss feeds, such a good way to consume things @PetraOleum @ifixcoinops that's how I get my news every day. I use calibre to scrape news sites' RSS and compile it, then transfer that to my e-reader. Then I can read it at my leisure, and on the go since I take my reader everywhere.   @ifixcoinops On a quick search, it seems like eg. Caliber can be used to convert RSS feeds to ePub: http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/how_convert_rss_feeds_epub_files_calibre/ @slothrop @ifixcoinops I do this daily for my news, and monthly for some magazines that release on their web sites. @ifixcoinops I read it like, “huh, that’s a good idea, I wonder if I could auto-add to #calibre “ @ifixcoinops You've reminded me I used to have a script that uploaded news to my kindle as a pdf each day... 🤔 |
@ifixcoinops Not sure if you remember, but there was a service like that for the Palm devices (and I think WinCE as well)
And that was literally how I consumed news in the late 90s/early 2000s :D