RSS:Version:0.90

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[edit] RSS 0.90

RSS 0.90 is the earliest known version of RSS released to the public, and was replaced by Netscape's RSS 0.91 (Revision 1). It was created by Netscape to be a metadata format providing a summary of a website. (And not only a syndication format, as it is today.)

RSS 0.90 is an RDF-based format.

When RSS 0.90 was created, the RSS initialization stood for Rich Site Summary and not Really Simple Syndication. (See RSS - What is in a Name for more info on RSS's naming history.)

[edit] Examples

RSS 0.90 looked something like this:

   
    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    
    <rdf:RDF
       xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
       xmlns="http://my.netscape.com/rdf/simple/0.9/"
    >
    
        <channel>
            <title>Mozilla Dot Org</title>
            <link>http://www.mozilla.org</link>
            <description>the Mozilla Organization web site</description>
        </channel>
    
        <image>
            <title>Mozilla</title>
            <url>http://www.mozilla.org/images/moz.gif</url>
            <link>http://www.mozilla.org</link>
        </image>
    
        <item>
            <title>New Status Updates</title>
            <link>http://www.mozilla.org/status/</link>
        </item>
    
        <item>
            <title>Bugzilla Reorganized</title>
            <link>http://www.mozilla.org/bugs/</link>
        </item>
    
        <item>
            <title>Mozilla Party, 2.0!</title>
            <link>http://www.mozilla.org/party/1999/</link>
        </item>
    
        <item>
            <title>Unix Platform Parity</title>
            <link>http://www.mozilla.org/build/unix.html</link>
        </item>
    
        <item>
            <title>NPL 1.0M published</title>
            <link>http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/NPL-1.0M.html</link>
        </item>
    
    </rdf:RDF>
    

Note that here, RSS is being used to list sections of the web site. Rather than for syndication.

[edit] Specification

The original RSS 0.90 specification has disappeared from its original location:

http://my.netscape.com/publish/help/quickstart.html

Copies of it have been saved, and can be viewed at the following locations:

• http://www.purplepages.ie/RSS/netscape/rss0.90.html
• http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://my.netscape.com/publish/help/quickstart.html