@zens @WClayFerguson@fosstodon.org @wilw

That's long time ago so my memories are vague, but at some point web browsers had this RSS aggregation feature built-in.

You basically clicked this RSS icon on a website and browser would pull updates in the background for you periodically. In Firefox that was called Live Bookmarks and was removed in 2018 "because nobody used it" as they explained.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacements-firefox