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A stepping stone to the real-time Web

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RSS FEEDS

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) allows people to subscribe to timely updates from their favourite websites. More than this, it was a stepping stone to the real-time Web of today.

Aged just 14, Aaron Swartz was a member of the working group that created the RSS 1.0 specification. He went on to help define RDF (Resource Description Framework) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

In 1997, Dave Winer, the man who gave us the blog, created the first RSS feed for his Scripting News website ...

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