Google Reader

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Google Reader was a feed reader service run by Google launched 2005-10-07 and shutdown 2013-07-01.

Shutdown

Posts about Google Reader’s shutdown and the impact thereof.

Announcement of shutdown: 2013-03-13 Google Blog: A second spring of cleaning
on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader.
https://twitter.com/sarahw/status/1138819290977787905
- "Google Reader died almost exactly six years ago and if I had to pinpoint when the Internet nosedived, that would be the day" @sarahw June 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/DavidDTSS/status/1138841105619963904
- "the death of google reader effectively killed the homepage. it killed site loyalty. it pushed everyone to FB and Twitter for news and updates. it sliced away the amount of bylines people pay attention to. it paved the way for fake news." @DavidDTSS June 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/cstross/status/1138884710908792832
- "By implication: by killing off RSS aggregation, Google are responsible for Trump, Brexit, and the rise of neo-nazi revanchism on a global scale (not to mention sundry other derangements caused by poisoning the well of discourse on the net)." @cstross June 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/blogdiva/status/1138881289782812672?s=20
- "when i read shit like: "the internet died because Google killed Google Reader"
  
  🗣 I
  🗣 WANT
  🗣 TO
  🗣 SCREEEEEEAM
  
  no fuckers
  
  the open internet died when capitalists convinced y'all, running your own server & RSS reader was "hard" & you should take their golden shackles" @blogdiva June 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/techpractical/status/1211603230209249282
- "So, RSS fans, particularly those who wish google hadn't shuttered reader: what would you pay to have it back as an indieweb project?" @techpractical December 30, 2019
https://twitter.com/mathowie/status/1299480141760872448
- "my friends: you need to let it go and move on with your life
  
  me:" @mathowie August 28, 2020
https://web.archive.org/web/20200830004111/https://twitter.com/TrevorBramble/status/1299526621850824706 (original deleted: https://twitter.com/TrevorBramble/status/1299526621850824706)
- "Here's the true part. Don't @ me.
  
  (You can totally @ me. This website is a conversation.)" @TrevorBramble August 29, 2020
https://twitter.com/sickandwant2die/status/1299533774582153216
- "" @sickandwant2die August 29, 2020
2021-07-21 The Day the Good Internet Died
2023-06-30 The Verge: Who killed Google Reader? / Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been.
Reader’s impending shutdown was announced in March of 2013, and the app went officially offline on July 1st of that year.

Shutdown

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