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Re:The RSS Apocalypse by cmccabe on Saturday March 16, 2013 @05:41AM (#5384966)
An "application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet." RSS? No. That's a description of Gopher, from Wikipedia.

I just realized something... RSS is the new Gopher.

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Re:The RSS Apocalypse by tomkarlo on Saturday March 16, 2013 @06:31PM (#5387064)
That description also describes HTTP, SPDY, and a bunch of other protocols. Relatively speaking, RSS never achieved the kind of popularity. Back in about 1993, there were more Gopher sites than HTTP sites.
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