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That is a keen observation. I guess rss is a technology from simpler and more explorative times of the internet instead of the current oppressive and commercial
by mosselman 9y ago
That is a keen observation. I guess rss is a technology from simpler and more explorative times of the internet instead of the current oppressive and commercialized phase we are going through now.
- icebraining 9y agoEh, the surveillance was weaker, but I'm not sure about the commercialization. RSS is from 99/00, the era of Punch The Monkey flash banner ads and dozens of popups and popunders. From what I can tell, RSS was the equivalent of today's OpenGraph. It was a tool for a company (Netscape) to slurp content into its portal. It's just that AOL then blundered when they bought Netscape and removed support for RSS, which then became a de-facto standard format. In fact, as RSS popularity wanes, a feed reader that can reader OG tags is probably a good idea.