RSS is a family of web feed formats that let a website publish a summary of its latest updates, such as new articles or blog posts, in a standardized structure that other programs can automatically check and display, without a reader needing to visit the site directly to see what is new. The American programmer Dan Libby, working at Netscape, created the first version, called RDF Site Summary, in March 1999 to let Netscape's My Netscape Network portal display headlines pulled automatically from other websites. After Netscape abandoned the format, the writer and programmer Dave Winer of UserLand Software continued developing it under the backronym Really Simple Syndication, and RSS became the standard mechanism by which blogs, news sites and podcasts alike let readers and podcast applications subscribe to new content automatically.
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SignificanceFirst version of RSS (RDF Site Summary), created at Netscape by Dan Libby, Ramanathan V. Guha and Eckart Walther. 1 FAQs
What does RSS stand for?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, a web content syndication format.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. The RSS Advisory Board describes it as a web content syndication format, which means a site can publish a feed of its latest items for other programs to read.
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1. RSS, Wikipedia
History, release paragraph
It was released in March 1999 for use on the My.Netscape.Com portal. This version became known as RSS 0.9.
History, creation paragraph
RDF Site Summary, the first version of RSS, was created by Dan Libby, Ramanathan V. Guha, and Eckart Walther at Netscape.
In Group: Web and Online Communication Software, Lead paragraph
is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites
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