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posted by martyb on Monday January 14 2019, @11:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-dead-yet dept.

Motherboard:

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?

[NB: SoylentNews supports syndicated feeds — scroll to the bottom of almost any page on the site (for certain it is on the main page) and you will see links to our Atom and RSS feeds. --Ed].


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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday January 15 2019, @05:43AM

    by MostCynical (2589) on Tuesday January 15 2019, @05:43AM (#786801) Journal

    If you give stuff away for free, you must be a Commie/Socialist/enemy of the state, so you deserve to die.

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