{"id":35320,"date":"2022-03-18T17:05:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T21:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35320"},"modified":"2022-03-18T17:05:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T21:05:23","slug":"history-of-instapaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/18\/history-of-instapaper\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Instapaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapsmart.com\/apps\/the-classic-app-instapaper\/\">Craig Grannell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.tapsmart.com\/apps\/the-classic-app-instapaper\/\">\n<p>Read-later services have come and gone since Instapaper&rsquo;s debut, but the original survives. The app and service both remain free, although you can opt for a &lsquo;premium&rsquo; subscription, which adds archive text search, text-to-speech and speed-reading functionality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapsmart.com\/apps\/the-classic-app-instapaper\/\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.tapsmart.com\/apps\/the-classic-app-instapaper\/\">\n<p>It intentionally had no <em>social<\/em> features &mdash; I designed it solely for <em>personal<\/em> utility, not sharing or promotion. Instapaper was the first service that combined quick saving with a text-optimized reading view and offline access.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Before the iPhone app was possible, the text-content parser was a technical and practical need: articles had to be small enough to download quickly over 2G and stay loaded in memory on the first version of Safari for iPhone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Grannell: Read-later services have come and gone since Instapaper&rsquo;s debut, but the original survives. The app and service both remain free, although you can opt for a &lsquo;premium&rsquo; subscription, which adds archive text search, text-to-speech and speed-reading functionality. Marco Arment: It intentionally had no social features &mdash; I designed it solely for personal utility, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-03-18T21:05:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"648fd926-8265-4794-be23-c8897e0dcd69","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-03-18T21:05:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AZI_ZJoJlR5S-I8iJfg3NaQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[295,393,286,31,26,386,96],"class_list":["post-35320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-history","tag-instapaper","tag-interview","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-mobilesafari","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35321,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35320\/revisions\/35321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}