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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @03:11AM
channel, which is connected to the clearnet one. There are at least two Synchronet based BBSes up on it (not sure if either has automated registration, so they may be accessible to new users), plus Retroshare has nodes all across it. For that matter there are a few Tor based BBSes as well, not including the large number of clearnet ones still in operation.
Even better, dosbox has outbound TCP/IP serial modem emulation that can allow your dos era clients to connect over telnet to remote hosts allowing you to use all your favorite classic DOS dialup communications programs to connect. Although it is likely you will have to manually dial them with ATDT hostname:portnum, since most dialers used fixed format addressbooks based on the domestic phone number format :(
Enjoy!