Wouldn’t it be great if you could read all of your favorite websites from 1 place? If you answered yes, then RSS feeds are for you.
Here’s how it works:
- You have an RSS reader on your computer (we will get into it more later)
- You tell RSS reader to go out and get all your favorite websites (21apples, bbc.com, nytimes.com, slashdot.com, etc)
- You open your RSS reader and read all of the latest news from there (no need to visit all of those websites, they come to you!)
How does it really work?
- many websites put out these “feeds” called *RSS* or *XML* feeds
- you subscribe to these feeds with your RSS reader
- your RSS reader looks at these feeds (say every 30 minutes) and delivers the most recent information to your RSS reader
Basically, a web page like this one creates an RSS feed of all of the articles they have. Then from your computer, you subscribe to the RSS feed. Instead of coming here next time, you just read your subscriptions from your
