Salon.com > AltaVista http://www.salon.com Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:11:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Please stop the bogus tech nostalgia eulogies http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/please_stop_the_bogus_tech_nostalgia_eulogies/ http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/please_stop_the_bogus_tech_nostalgia_eulogies/#comments Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:17:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13347363 July 1 is here, and Google Reader is still alive. I feel cheated. After all the grief and foreboding that have accompanied the last days of what so many people seem to believe was the greatest blog aggregator that shall ever stride the earth, the fact that the service still exists, at least for today, is hugely anticlimactic. I was expecting a pile of smoking ashes, or at least a 404 message. But it's all there, along with a note reminding us that "Reader will not be available after July 1." So July 2 is actually the drop-dead deadline? That's silly.

So much drama! So much scrambling for alternatives at the last minute! So much nostalgia for those days when everyone had a blog and every post was brilliant and the future seemed so bright ... Wait, did that actually happen? Maybe I'm getting carried away.

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