Glenn FleishmanDec 14, 2023

Did you love Yahoo! Pipes and miss it? I sure did. I wrote this history of the graphical web-based processing tool that sure seemed like the future when it was introduced! https://retool.com/pipes I interviewed the core team and several other folks so we could finally have a definitive history. (And forget my words, even—the illustrations are amazing!)

This is part of a series at Retool, a visual programming tools company, that decided to make sure the past wasn’t forgotten.

Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes

In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.

Show threadRichard ErikssonDec 14, 2023
@glennf This is catnip for Andy Baio.
Show threadGlenn Fleishman
@sillygwailo Andy was instrumental in introducing me to the core team!
Dec 14, 2023 at 6:23pmWeb
Show threadRichard ErikssonDec 14, 2023
@glennf Well there you go. Yahoo! Pipes was definitely great. It’s possible to do the same stuff now, more or less, but it sure doesn’t feel the same. Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane (plus all of the background).