Interesting quote from some blog, dated March 04, 2003 :
What's interesting is that people have been focusing on creating client side RSS aggregators. I think the world needs a very good server side aggregator. I'd use it. You could do all sorts of interesting things with a server side aggregator.
This is from Mark Fetcher's blog, who a few months later … founded Bloglines, the site with the best ratio uglyness / usability of the whole internet.