> To come full circle figuratively means to be back where you started. What you meant to say is that you've done a 180 (a U-turn) on the idea. I think his use

> To come full circle figuratively means to be back where you started. What you meant to say is that you've done a 180 (a U-turn) on the idea. I think his use of the expression is accurate—coming full circle to HTML—not to RSS. There would have been no need for the commenter to co-create RSS if HTML had been adequate for what they were trying to achieve at that time. In other words, HTML's poor fit for content syndication as the web was growing paved way for the creation of RSS. Now, people merely use HTML meta elements to achieve most of what RSS was designed for.