Strange history to #RSS. Apple to Netscape with some of Dave Winer's own-grown specification to a split into two indie working groups. Dave's Userland Software, and RSS-DEV (Rael Dornfest from O'Reilly, a very young Aaron Swartz, et al.) #Atom attempted to resolve this split.
bigbluehat @bigbluehat
18 Apr 2022
Replying to @mholzschlag @ollicle @stephenhay @w3c @WHATWG
I'd love to hear more. I'd always thought Atom was the better built alternative to RSS. What'd I miss?

Apr 18, 2022 · 2:19 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
Whoa, I hadn’t even realized Atom was its own thing.
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Yep! Isn't that a wild history? It's far more complex than what I wrote in that one tweet of course - there are some good articles and Wikipedia has articles on RSS, Atom and syndication models that covers it all pretty well. :)
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