Read RSS feeds direct from the terminal
Aug 24, 2021
3 minutes
What sort of world have we created? An open internet was supposed to be a bastion of human knowledge, where we could all share our thoughts, contribute to the advancement of all human knowledge and have an occasional game of Quake. What did we get instead? Facebook and a web of endless adverts and faux top-ten buying guides.
One of the standards that grew out of the early(ish) web was RSS (Really Simple Syndication) that was originally built into in 1999. It gave websites a way to announce updated content in was killed off and the competing ATOM standard was launched.
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