Tom Scheinfeldt emailed me a link to a nice wiki entry on the history of RSS, which in turn led to more reading on RSS’s history. A few links of interest:
- Mark Pilgrim’s “brief history of RSS from July 2000 to November 2000,” during which time RSS “forked.” Pilgrim has documented lots of interesting discussions.
- Joseph Reagle’s“Web RSS (Syndication) History” is a brief but detailed timeline of RSS’s development.
- WebReference.com’s The Evolution of RSS.
- Dave Riner’s RSS 2.0 Political FAQ: An interview with the principle creator of RSS.