Anil DashMention "Yahoo Pipes" to your resident Nerd of a Certain Age in order to elicit a wistful, faraway gaze.
Adam Gurri@anildash omg
@martin has moved
Kin Lane@anildash I was interviewing someone who was there at the time this last week. Spent way too much nerding out. ;=)
John Minnihan
Jason Garber@anildash My obnoxious hot take is that this new crop of “low-code” platforms are Yahoo! Pipes for Gen Z.
Aaron Huslage@anildash And Google Reader. What a pair.
BjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏
harley! ✨@anildash @Edent at least these days https://nodered.org/ is decent as a self-hosted alternative
lots to be said about the early days of web2.0’s pluggability though :)
Joe Schmitt@anildash "Yahoo Pipes... now that's a name I've not heard in a long time”
Steve Robertson@anildash @jherskowitz That'll probably include you, I bet!
J Herskowitz 👋
Amy Hendrix@anildash Too soon, Anil
Les Orchard@anildash IIRC, I was working at Y! when it launched and was a peak RSS nerd at the time. So yeah 😮
pardo_bsso@anildash
Oh, I still remember those.
Oh, I still remember those.
Blaine Cross@anildash Yeah...*sniff*
Kirbstr@anildash I bring this up in my trainings and I get blank stares. Then I direct them to https://pipes.digital and tell them how things used to be
Jeff Craig@anildash Seriously. I remember when "Web 2.0" meant services with APIs and the ability to remix content and move data around using stuff like Pipes.
It's part of what's frustrating about the "Web 3.0" framing, because we actually stepped back from Web 2.0 as platforms like Facebook and Twitter et al needed to claw back their APIs to maximize profits.
Molly DravenThere is a name I have not heard in a long time.
bernie@anildash it was so cool.
Jonathan Bennett@anildash That sounds like a line from a Half Man Half Biscuit song.
Mike Brogan@anildash I remember using it to mash multiple RSS feeds into one.
Damon Kiesow
Andrew Hinton@anildash I thought that thing was the harbinger of a whole new era of democratized “coding” … sigh
Simon de la Rouviere@anildash aaah. The once beautiful promise of data composability in web2 businesses. I loved the mashup era.
André Natta@anildash I miss it so...
Bret Mogilefsky
Jessamyn@anildash Nerdbait toots.
Alan Levine@anildash My gaze is far far away squinting for the shiny pipes
David Dorward@anildash ooooh. Now I miss YQL.
And I’m still sad that YUI never took jQuery’s crown.
And now I’m remembering FireEagle.
For a short, shining while Y! was positioning itself to supply a significant chuck of web infrastructure with some very nice products.
Ryan@anildash "I need to get the RSS feed of new additions from my favorite DMOZ category into my del.icoi.us account. Yahoo Pipes!"
Pat@anildash One of the first things that I built on the web of any significance was an embed that would show FriendFeed comments alongside a Blogger post. It was 100% Yahoo Pipes on the backend.
It was a very different time.
mel@anildash touché
Shaun Harrison
Derek van Vliet
Tiago@anildash it's me. I'm the nerd.
Chris Radcliff
Brad Grzesiak 🦆@anildash oh man. I had a Craigslist filtering multiplexer that I published on Pipes, and it had *millions* of runs
Dan@anildash my yahoo account is [email protected]. I think you can guess why.
Stephan Heuel
Tyler Bell
Ashe Dryden@anildash those were the days lol
forresto@anildash I got that a bunch with my thesis project (frontend things though)... https://meemoo.org
Webflow is trying to bring back backend pipes with "Logic." https://webflow.com/logic
Raymond Camden@anildash omg i loved that service
Joe Steinbring 
Dr. Juande Santander-Vela
Blake Helms 
@anildash Oh, Yahoo Pipes… it was such an underrated tech. I had so many “pipes" setup back in the day.
ben
Mathew Ingram@anildash Or for an even older set, Yahoo FinanceVision :-)
daniel s.@anildash check out pipedream.com to relive your yahoo pipes fantasies
Brett Elliff
Frank van Puffelen@anildash Extremely true.
I even asked Bard yesterday what Yahoo Pipes was (it did well on this) and what modern equivalents there are (it did OK'ish on this).
Lou Paniccia@anildash Yahoo Pipes! Now that’s a name I have not heard in a long time… First learned about it at SXSW in 2009 🤯
James Higgott@anildash oh man. I used it to mung together a bunch of feeds for my PR colleagues to keep track of. It was brilliant and they did not care.
phildini@anildash As someone currently winding down a company that was trying to chase this premise, yes, extremely.
Zapier isn't bad at what it does, but the only company I think actually carrying that torch well today is Parabola
coldclimate@anildash and the greatest ever sneaky hustle. Apparently an example pipeline appended a devs Amazon affiliate ref to Amazon URLs. Wish I could cite it.
Arthur Wyatt@anildash for some, it is Yahoo Pipes, for me it is HyperCard, for generations to come, who knows…
Simon MacDonald@anildash oh man, I just filled out a survey about low/no code solutions and I just told them to clone Yahoo Pipes.
tante@anildash It was the best. I miss it almost every day TBH
jlapoutre@anildash wow I absolutely forgot about Yahoo Pipes! Those were a thing indeed. Forever promising…