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.

@glennf Yep, I loved it and miss it? (Ditto for Tarpipe - see https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2009/04/21/tarpipe.com-programming-2.0/)

Wonderful article, nice work!

BTW, did you really mean "RSS 2.0" when you mentioned RDF? It's ironically very much one of the versions of RSS that does not have RDF, and those that remember will recall the schism, the pain, and know why ...

tarpipe.com - Programming 2.0?

tarpipe.com - Programming 2.0? 21 Apr 2009 | 2 min read Is tarpipe.com an early example of a “Programming 2.0″ concept? I first read about...

DJ Adams
@qmacro Gosh, yes, should have been something like RDF (part of an ill-fated RSS 1.0)!
@glennf ha! Not ill fated, for me RSS 1.0 is the one true RSS :)
@glennf before a certain someone threw their toys out of the pram and upset an entire community.
@glennf but the wonderful outcome of that horrible episode was Atom, which led to the Atom Publishing Protocol and ultimately, via Microsoft, to OData.