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Monday 26 July 2010

Dave Winer Did Not Invent RSS

vruz wrote:

…many people don’t like his attitude… but you can afford attitude when you are the inventor of RSS. also: this time he’s right. also: wasting time with the faithfull doesn’t help intelligent dialogue at all.

History of web syndication technology

Dave Winer did not invent RSS. The format was created in 1999 by Ramanathan V. Guha and Dan Libby at Netscape. Winer invented ScriptingNews format, an early stab at syndication that died when he switched to RSS.
 

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