Create RSS channels from HTML news sites Nov 15, 2001 by Chris Ball Even if you haven’t heard of the RSS acronym before, you’re likely to have used RSS in the past. Whether through the slashboxes at slashdot or our own news summary at use.perl.org, the premise remains the same - RSS, or “Remote Site Summary” is a method used for providing an overview of the latest news to appear on a site. RSS is