I'm looking for a program that could serve as a perpetual, scrolling RSS feed that would cull news from various servers to be run on legacy OSes.

August 19, 2007 12:23 PM

AsceticRSSFilter: I'm looking for a program I found by chance awhile ago that could serve as a perpetual, scrolling RSS feed that would cull news from various servers to be run on legacy OSes.

I'm trying to turn my spare PC into something useful. I remember finding a program on the net awhile ago that serves what I'm looking for.

It was a command-line based client that would stream a sort of rss feed from this one website with miscellaneous news: local, weather, politics, etc. The program was meant to be installed and left on perpetually, and the feed would scroll as well. It could be run on old 386s and 486s, Palm Pilots, and pretty much any legacy OS without a graphical environment.

It was probably a one-word url/website/name, IIRC. Also, I found it through the comments of another website (which I can't remember) which I was looking at that gave tutorials on turning old laptop monitors into digital paintings/wall-pieces (ie 77 million paintings).

Thanks again.

posted by Lockeownzj00 to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

You may be thinking of Pointcast, which was hugely popular about 9-10 years ago and predates RSS. Maybe it supports RSS now?
posted by exhilaration at 2:32 PM on August 21, 2007

And you may be interested in these console-based RSS readers.
posted by exhilaration at 9:01 AM on August 23, 2007