I love the piece Cory Doctorow wrote about RSS.

But I take exception to the idea that it's been dormant, or that Google made it work. The NYT did that. And there were lots of good if not great feed readers before Google.

https://scripting.com/2026/03/07/204625.html?title=rssHasNeverBeenDormant

And Google, by requiring titles, really mucked everything up. We're still paying the price, even though their product has been gone since 2013.