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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: 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.