Danny Ayers notes that today is the birthday of RSS 0.91.
I remember Microsoft's CDF format and the promise of push technology. I think that "push" fizzled out because dynamic languages, like Python and Ruby, hadn't quite arrived.
With Python's urllib, I can easily play around with XML over in HTTP, whereas doing the same thing in C++ is almost painful.
Your ability to absorb a new idea is directly related to how quickly you can play around with that technology. Expensive, difficult to implement, technologies will never get the mind share that you can get from something which is truly simple.
RSS 0.91 is that simple.
