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79 // Read-later apps with Tristan Homsi and Dan Doyon

Metamuse

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The History of Read Later Apps

Read Later Apps are apps that let you save web pages to read later from both your computer and mobile phone. The first Read Later App was created in the late 2000s by Marco Ormont of Instapaper. Reader is looking for that kind of perfect Read Later app. Adam: There was a fundamental activity that came before read it later apps, which as long as the web browser has existed.

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