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Life & fun · June 23, 2021

Newsstand

A Google news RSS reader for Mac OS9

Newsstand launched on June 23, 2021 with 74 votes, #975 of 3,650 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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What it does

Newsstand is a native Mac OS classic application that allows Mac OS 9 and vintage Mac users to read Google News across more than 200 curated topics and 24 countries.

Newsstand is a new Google News RSS reader for Mac OS 9. Stay up-to-date across more than 200 topics in 24 countries.

Newsstand 1.0. Created in June 2021. New in Newsstand 1.1: Add your favorite RSS feeds I created Newsstand as a fun way to access the news on my vintage Macs. I have a two Apple PowerBook G3 computers, but older machines don't work very well on the modern web. Their browsers can't load https websites, and vintage hardware can't keep up with the dynamic pages that make up the web today. I created Newsstand in Mac OS 9 using tools only available at the time. With Newsstand, I can use a Classic Mac application on my PowerBooks and stay up-to-date with what's happening. Newsstand has been a personal project over the last few weeks and a really fun challenge. I'm ready to release it to all of…from getnewsstand.com

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