By the time he was 14, he had co-written the specification for RSS -- originally Rich Site Summary, now Really Simple Syndication -- a Web-publishing technology for delivering syndicated content from frequently updated sites, such as blogs or news websites.

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As web content has expanded, computers have drawn on other bilingual sources, including the European Parliament and news sites publishing in multiple languages.

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