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The Story of How RSS Came to Be
Wednesday January 9, 2019. 08:47 PM , from TheMacObserver
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a way for websites and podcasts to offer a feed of updated content for people. It’s a fairly standard technology but many people don’t use it.
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. Long story short (Although you should still read the long story): RSS was too complicated for non-tech users, and the internet slowly became centralized into data silos like Google and Facebook.
https://www.macobserver.com/link/story-rss-came-be/?utm_source=macobserver&utm_medium=rss&utm_campai...
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