Welcome back to our short series on RSS Feed Submission and Syndication for the new comer. In today’s article I’m going to briefly discuss a little bit of the history behind the RSS Feed system. It all started in 1997 when a guy by the name of David Winer who owned userland.com thought of and started the original format. Of course, in it’s infancy it was called “scriptingNews” as it wasn’t yet RSS. However Dan Libby of Netscape designed the first version of RSS but it was all done of Winer’s initial work with “scriptingNews.” It allowed Netscape’s web site to automatically add news from all over the web to their site automatically. The original concept was to publish headlines so that Netscape’s viewers could simply click for more information and go right to the original publishing site. This first official form of RSS was number 0.90 but nobody has yet to be able to come up with a solid answer as to why it stated with such an odd number.
RSS is now known as “Really Simple Syndication” but at that time it stood for RDF Site Summary. Of course, just to confuse people RSS is an acronym inside an acronym because why make anything simple right? The RDF in RDF Site Summary stands for Resource Description Framework. To really get a better understanding of RDF a great starting point is to look at HTML which is the more universally understood language. HTML uses a variety of tags to format the text and tell your web browser how to display information. However, you can only use tags that the HTML developers designed into the system to begin with. XML looks a lot like HTML because the tags are in angled brackets but in XML you can make up your own tags. Using those tags you can define objects of the structure of the information. RDF takes advantage of that.
And now you should know a little bit about how RSS got started. It was a simple concept that was then improved upon, and it was used then much as it is used today - to syndicate information from one web site to another.
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