I hate to look dumb in front of my children, especially when they use words and expressions I don't know. So before they ask me, what does RSS mean? Should I be concerned about it?
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DQ: I sense the beginning of a long and meaningful relationship here, as you will hear many such acronyms and words. RSS, a family of feed formats used on websites that are constantly being updated - for things such as blogs, headline news and podcasts - is a great way to get timely information online. It is fairly harmless but I would never suggest you leave young children online for hours without supervision.
More than 10 years ago, engineers at Apple thought it would be a good idea to syndicate certain kinds of messages so a person browsing the internet would not have to keep seeking updates. Their research yielded the meta content framework format for structuring metadata (data about data) from websites. Subsequent work on such syndication at Netscape developed the resource description framework (RDF), which became the early version of RSS, known as RDF site summary. Later advances in the technology led to it being referred to as rich site summary, although there are other claims as to what the RSS stands for.
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