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I would like to take one comment in this post to recognize Aaron Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

What's his connection to RSS?

It's literally in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia link above...

RTFA has never been more appropriate.

From the link: "At age 14, he became a member of the working group that authored the RSS 1.0 web syndication specification."