13 Facts About RSS

RSS is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format.

Websites usually use RSS feeds to publish frequently updated information, such as blog entries, news headlines, episodes of audio and video series, or for distributing podcasts.

An RSS document includes full or summarized text, and metadata, like publishing date and author's name.

RSS formats were preceded by several attempts at web syndication that did not achieve widespread popularity.

RDF Site Summary, the first version of RSS, was created by Dan Libby and Ramanathan V Guha at Netscape.

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Two parties emerged to fill the void, with neither Netscape's help nor approval: The RSS-DEV Working Group and Dave Winer, whose UserLand Software had published some of the first publishing tools outside Netscape that could read and write RSS.

RSS-DEV Working Group, a project whose members included Aaron Swartz, Guha and representatives of O'Reilly Media and Moreover, produced RSS 1.

When retrieved, RSS reading software could use the XML structure to present a neat display to the end users.

Userland's RSS reader—generally considered as the reference implementation—did not originally filter out HTML markup from feeds.

Primary objective of all RSS modules is to extend the basic XML schema established for more robust syndication of content.

RSS gained wider use because of early feed reader support.

RSS support was removed in OS X Mountain Lion's versions of Mail and Safari, although the features were partially restored in Safari 8.

In 2018, Wired published an article named "It's Time for an RSS Revival", citing that RSS gives more control over content compared to algorithms and trackers from social media sites.