Alright, buckle up internet history fans: we've come to the RSS Format Wars! The year 2000 was when RSS got forked into 2 different protocols: Dave Winer's RSS 0.92 and the RDF-based RSS 1.0. What's remarkable, looking back, is that the top bloggers of the day — Kottke, CamWorld, Rebecca Blood, Brad Graham, and others — still weren't using RSS by the end of that year. But they *were* building blogrolls. https://cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-2000/ #InternetHistory #RSS
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@ricmac
The "bloggers making friends" section is what blogging on the smolweb still feels like to me... it's fascinating to read that the "first wave" of blogging in the early 2000s was like this, too 😊
@ricmac As someone who is building an RSS reader for fun, not profit, the various formats are still a pain to deal with in 2025.
@ricmac And then came Atom ...
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