Understanding the RSS standard

As part of developing the MishMash website, can RSS feeds be used to link information from various university web pages? Here is a blog post summarising some of what I have learned about this “classic” web standard. The basics RSS (Really Simple Syndication) has been a cornerstone of web content distribution for over two decades. It was developed by Netscape in the late 1990s as a solution to content discovery problems and evolved through several versions (0.90, 0.91, 0.92, and 2.0) before reaching widespread adoption. ...

December 28, 2025 · 3 min · 541 words · ARJ