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When I was really getting started as a developer, in the early 2000s, the internet was all about blogs. Developers built and rebuilt their blogs over and over again. They’d roll their own publishing system, they’d customize Wordpress, tear it all apart and do it all over again. I built and rebuilt abouthalf.com a dozen ways. It was fun, I learned things. I got to show off and share what I learned with others. I got into arguments on the internet about it. It was great.Blogs got so hugely popular they began to influence legacy media and Google took notice. Google Reader sprang up out of Google Labs and became the de facto RSS reader for a generation.RSS - Really Simple Syndication - was a great, simple invention of the open internet. A website could publish a standardized XML file that listed website updates in reverse chronological order. Then a news reader, which could be a stand alone app on the web or your desktop, could fetch a number of website “feeds” and display them all…