My.UserLand.Com aggregator turned off

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

Dear Syndicators, today I put the My.UserLand.Com aggregator to rest. It
served us well, but had fallen behind its decentralized grandchild-- the
aggregator in Radio UserLand.

Some milestones in the existence of My.UserLand.Com.

3/15/99: I read the legal agreement for Netscape's aggregator,
My.Netscape.Com, and based on that decided to compete. [1]

3/16/99: I had a phone conversation with Eckart Walther at Netscape.

3/17/99: I put up an RSS File Tester app.

3/18/99: Dan Lyke posted a Perl script that automatically builds an RSS
file. I announced our intention to compete with Netscape's aggregator in a
DaveNet piece. [2]

3/20/99: News.Com article on Netscape job cuts. [3] We learn about
NewsHub.[4]

3/21/99: We put up an app that renders a syndication of Slashdot, reading
their text-based (non-XML) syndication file.

3/26/99: First mention of My.UserLand.Com on Scripting News. Apparently it
was already live that day, because there's a link to the site (the DaveNet
piece on the 18th had a link too). The RSS registration page was up. I talk
about integrating the text-based Slashdot feed with the RSS aggregator. I
was talking about portals, much as everyone else was in 1999. (If only I had
known the dotcom bust was coming!)

3/28/99: Slashdot worked with My.UserLand. [5] They now had an XML version
of their text-based feed that worked with Netscape. We linked our
centralized app with their content flow. Netscape's RSS spec was published.

3/30/99: Lots of new channels come online.

3/31/99: Netscape links to My.UserLand.Com as a peer in their Open
Directory.