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About a decade ago, the average internet user might well have heard of RSS. Really Simple Syndication, or Rich Site Summary—what the acronym stands for depends on who you ask—is a standard that websites and podcasts can use to offer a feed of content to their users, one easily understood by lots of different computer programs. Today, though RSS continues to power many applications on the web, it has become, for most people, an obscure technology.
The story of how this happened is really two stories. The first is a story about a broad vision for the web's future that never quite came to fruition. The second is a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development.
Who killed RSS?
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by TechieRefugee on Monday January 14 2019, @11:46PM (7 children)
Considering I get a good bit of info through RSS (actually I was a bit of a late bloomer to this, I only started using it last April or so), yeah nobody.
How long until "The Rise and Demise of IRC"? "The Rise and Demise of FTP"?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @12:31AM (4 children)
FTP will never F%&%ing die, no matter how many times I try to explain to people that a plaintext protocol that is older than they are isn't really the best choice in the 21st Century. That damned protocol will outlive every one of us.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday January 15 2019, @11:59AM (3 children)
I plan to write a FTP server in COBOL when I retire, link to immortal pieces of technology together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @12:07PM
It's been done [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @01:33PM
its funny, on my home network, or over the 2048 bit aes-256 vpn, regular ftp seems to fit my needs just fine.
i dont add locks, not even privacy locks, on my refrigerator door and other points of the home that, technically, could be made less useful because someone else is insecure and has no concept as to how I use things.
maybe they should just tell their friends to use sftp or ftps and point them to lets encrypt if for some reason the home or private network really needs a public certificate for encryption, or teach them how to make a private cert and import it so the computers using it don't keep displaying scary errors that they didn't buy into a public system for transactions that are not public.
(Score: 2) by DavePolaschek on Tuesday January 15 2019, @02:26PM
Not a gopher server? I think you're missing out on a big chunk of the market!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @12:39AM (1 child)
I actually hope FTP dies soon... it's a more complex protocol than people give it credit for. Consider setting up firewall rules for HTTP or SSH... pretty darned simple, open 443 or 22; done. Now FTP on the other hand.. 21 plus a port range and to cap it all off there's no encryption https://www.mdjnet.dk/router.html [mdjnet.dk]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @09:13AM
TEXT and binary transfer mode... the most awkward option in a protocol if you ask me.