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That "I invented RSS" line is utter bullshit of the highest order. Ramanathan V. Guha and Dan Libby of Netscape created it back in 1999. Do not pass go, do not
by wyclif 15y ago
That "I invented RSS" line is utter bullshit of the highest order. Ramanathan V. Guha and Dan Libby of Netscape created it back in 1999. Do not pass go, do not drink the Kool-aid.
- wmf 15y agoOf course, Netscape's initial version of RSS sucked and didn't get much traction until Winer got involved. The history of RSS isn't a simple thing.
- wyclif 15y agoExcept I wasn't talking about traction or the simplicity of history, but the assertion that Winer "invented" RSS, which is patently false.
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- jacob_riis 15y agoCitation?
- joshu 15y agobtw Guha prefers to be called Guha...
- BrandonM 15y agoI'm pretty sure donohoe was being sarcastic. Maybe someday we'll learn that sarcasm is rarely an insightful addition to a discussion.
- donohoe 15y agoYes, I was being sarcastic in the first instance. I'm Irish, without sarcasm I'd have nothing.
- guan 15y agoDave Winer would agree with you: November 2010: http://scripting.com/stories/2010/11/11/didYouInventRss.html http://scripting.com/stories/2010/11/11/didYouInventRss.html January 2007: http://scripting.com/scripting2/davewiner/2007/01/02/rssWasntInvented.html http://scripting.com/scripting2/davewiner/2007/01/02/rssWasn... Here’s one characterization by someone else that he seems to approve of: “[RSS] grew out of a good idea in 1997 from the software company Userland that got picked up and melded with one of Netscape's similar ideas.” http://scripting.com/2003/04/14.html#lff229a9a0dde77eb6e47c1ba7712e790 http://scripting.com/2003/04/14.html#lff229a9a0dde77eb6e47c1... While you might still think that Dan Libby deserves more credit than Winer, this is a far cry from claiming that he invented RSS.