Peter Murray1d ago

Over the past year, I've been quietly building something...and it's ready enough to share. 🧵

It's called https://ThisWas.News — every day, it shows you the lead headlines from one week, two weeks, one month, three months, six months, and one year ago today — with a short summary of what was actually happening.

Remember what the headlines used to be

This Was News is a daily time capsule of top news stories. Pick any date to see the lead headline and other major stories from that day, curated from major fact-focused news outlets so you can remember what the world thought was important.

This Was News
Show threadVM (Vicky) Brasseur1d ago

@dltj An RSS feed!

Peter, you're good people.

Show threadgittaca
@vmbrasseur @dltj Doing the lord's work *bow* Subscribed! I've been looking forward to someone building this for long time :-)
Apr 4 at 7:47pmWeb
Show threadPeter Murray1d ago
@gittaca @vmbrasseur This has been on my mind since the airliner-helicopter disaster in Washington. I thought for sure I was going to forget about that within days. A week later I had the first news website homepage scrapers written.