encoded notions

I was reading The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. and one chunk of the text seemed very familiar to me. What does this sound like to you?

Each user would consult it from a display terminal. A change summary, prepared daily, would be stored in LIFO fashion at a fixed access point. The programmer would probably read that daily, but if he missed a day he would need only read longer the next day.

Go on, take a guess.

Did you guess?

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It sounds very much like a description of a feed and an feed-aggregator. What really threw me for a loop was the copyright date on the book: 1975.

To quote a friend’s response to this info, “1975. It only took about 25 years before it really took off.”