RSS 1.0
The format that taught the web to subscribe, written when one author was 14.
In December 2000 Aaron Swartz, then 14, helped the RSS-DEV group write RSS 1.0. He was one author among many.
Aaron Swartz was one author, at 14, with the RSS-DEV group, December 2000.
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Copyright © 2000 by the Authors. Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute the RDF Site Summary 1.0 Specification and its accompanying documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted in perpetuity, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph appear in all copies. This copyright applies to the specification and its documentation and does not extend to the RSS format itself. Aaron Swartz did not invent RSS alone.
In December 2000 the RSS-DEV group published RSS 1.0 as an RDF vocabulary, the format that taught the web to subscribe to itself. Aaron Swartz, all of fourteen, was one author among them, and he never claimed to have invented RSS.
The bars follow the sample feed from the spec: an RDF wrapper, a channel, a title, a link, a description, and the repeated shape of an item. Nesting shows as indent, a placeholder sentence as a long bar. The words stay on the page.