RSS History

# History of RSS

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RSS has been released in many different versions.

## The History of RSS

- 1997 - Dave Winer develops scriptingNews. RSS was born.
- 1999 - Netscape develops RSS 0.90 (which supported scriptingNews). This was simply XML with an RDF Header.
- 1999 - Dave Winer at UserLand develops scriptingNews 2.0b1 (This included Netscape's RSS 0.90 features)
- 1999 - Netscape develops RSS 0.91. In this version they removed the RDF header, but included most features from scriptingNews 2.0b1.
- 1999 - UserLand gets rid of scriptingNews and uses only RSS 0.91
- Netscape stops their RSS development
- 2000 - UserLand releases the official RSS 0.91 specification
- 2000 - A group lead by Rael Dornfest at O'Reilly develops RSS 1.0. This format uses RDF and namespaces. This version is often confused as being a new version of 0.91, but this is a completely new format with no ties to RSS 0.91
- 2000 - Dave Winer at UserLand develops RSS 0.92
- 2002 - Dave Winer develops RSS 2.0 after leaving Userland
- 2003 - The official RSS 2.0 specification is released

## What are the Differences?

RSS 1.0 is the only version that was developed using the W3C RDF (Resource Description Framework) standard.

The idea behind RDF was to help create a Semantic Web. However, this does not matter too much for ordinary users, but by using web standards it will be easier for persons and applications to exchange data.

## What RSS Version Should I Use?

RSS 0.91 and RSS 2.0 are easier to understand than RSS 1.0. Our tutorial is based on RSS 2.0.

## Is There an RSS Web Standard?

There is no official standard for RSS.

- About 50 % of all RSS feeds use RSS 0.91
- About 25 % use RSS 1.0
- The last 25 % is split between RSS 0.9x versions and RSS 2.0

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