The first company
that thought of a similar idea was UserLand that released its
ScriptingNews format in 1997. The format was not that bad, but it was
not well accepted. The reason was Netscape, the company that was the
trend setterof new internet
technologies.
In 1999 RSS 0.9
was released, which was based on ScriptingNews. The format was getting
more and more popular but very, very slowly. It was considered too
complex, so Netscape had to improve it. This is how RSS 0.91 was
created. Then, Netscape decided to throw it away and transferred all
rights to develop and introduce RSS to its original developer, UserLand.
As a result, a new RSS version, 0.92 was developed. When 0.93 was
considered, RSS-Dev Working Group, an organization struggling for
preserving the RSS format, released version 1.0 based on RSS 0.9. Again,
version 1.0 was getting more and more popular but never became very
popular.
In 2002 UserLand
released RSS 2.0 that quickly became used in web projects of many users.
In 2003 under the Creative Commons license, RSS 2.0 specification was
released.
Nowadays, RSS is
still widely used and has become a de facto standard for a quality
website.
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