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The acronym RSS, meaning Really Simple Syndication, is not a new technology. It been alive for years and users have come to depend on their RSS "feeds" as a fundamental channel for keeping up with current events and discovering new information.
The term RSS embraces so many descriptions depending on what version is considered. Netscape called it RDF Site Summary (RSS) when it came first in March of 1999 then after about 3 months, changed it to Rich Site Summary. In August 2002, the new version was of RSS was named Really Simple Syndication. In June 2003 yet another working group formed to propose a new format called Atom.
RSS in not just for news, it is a format for syndicating news and other content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal blogs. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS.
Providers of RSS tools organised RSS feeds so hard so that it would be very easy for both publisher and user.
RSS uses XML to organise and format web-based content in a standard way. An XML formatted web page which usually consists of titles and brief descriptions of ten or so articles elsewhere on the site. Because feeds are created using the RSS standard, they can easily be read by a software client called an RSS feed reader or aggregator. Feed readers can manage all of the present standards. RSS feed readers permit you to connect to feeds that you understand contain vital or useful information.
To acquaint yourself more with the history of RSS, read on to find out about several RSS versions and which among these you are presently using. Version 0.9, which was initiated and owned by Netscape in 1999 is already obsolete. But it’s the earliest version in the history of RSS. A version 0.91 by Userland which is considered as the simplest, was used for basic syndication, however had been superseded by the newest version 2.0. Userland provides other versions such as 0.92 and version 2.0. The RSS-DEV Working Group developed version 1.0 that erased the first version of Netscape.
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