[garyrob]

Dave was really a pioneer. In the early days of the Mac, he created an outliner called MORE which was a very innovative product for the time, which I immediately loved and used as the center of all my information-keeping. He sold it to Symantec for, as I understand it, a couple million dollars (probably twice that in today's money), but then it disappeared. (OmniOutliner, made by people with no relationship to Winer that I know of, carries on MORE's tradition.) Then he made a product called Frontier, which was a programming environment that never really took off. Then when the internet got critical mass he came up with RSS and that was obviously very useful and influential.

His claim to have had the first blog is probably true. I remember reading it way back then.

He's a bit of a prickly character, always has been.

[leejoramo]

And before MORE, he created Think Tank for PC and Apple 2.

I remember reading him say his first outliner was on a timeshare system in the 1970s, and he took inspiration from that Douglas Engelbart’s Mother of All Demos

[garyrob]

Man, I forgot Think Tank. I used that before MORE, but that was too friggin' long ago for me to remember without being reminded!!