"I want the process of reading news to be like an old friend telling me gossip that he will think I'm interested in hearing."<p>Do you know such sites? I'd love to read like this too.
I think it would be great if it did. For most people (perhaps I am taking the developer viewpoint though).<p>In cases of embedded (like old phones, old TVs etc), well, I wouldn't not want it to actually rot (in that case the environment in which the software runs has not changed).