NetNewsWire officially turned 23 last week! 🎉 💥 🎂
I first mentioned NetNewsWire in a post back on February 4, 2003. Yes, really! Then followed it up in another post a few days later:
Brent Simmons describes how he gets one click subscription from a Web page to NetNewsWire.
Memo to self: Can Chimera do that?
It was very much back in my formative era of blogging. Looks like that was within the first 50 posts. Don’t actually remember what Chimera was.
I’m pretty confident I was using the 1.0 precursor, either NetNewsWire (paid) or, more likely, NetNewsWire Lite, well in advance of the 1.0 release. I’ve been at least an intermittent user of NNW over the years except for a gap when it wasn’t owned by Brent Simmons, and development had stalled a bit, especially on iOS. Also, Google Reader was still on the scene and quite good, so it might have become my main feed reader. Gettin’ hazy on the details, but there are a few posts on this blog about the situation.
Today, I use the iOS version of NetNewsWire, primarily synced with Feedbin, every single day. My set of daily apps isn’t small; banking and news apps help boost the count, but it’s one of the few I’d be really put out to give up. Feed reading, an essential personal activity, is effectively quarantined to my phone and no longer allowed on the desktop. NNW is the nexus of my feed reading.
Here’s to another two decades of the gift that is NetNewsWire!
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