Comment on Most overhyped software engineering technologies of the last 20 yearsparentComments−arethuza15y"XML was necessary for the first web APIs we had"People were building systems that had APIs exposed via HTTP a long time before XML.−JoachimSchipper15yAnd what's so special about HTTP? Communicating over the network is old - things like RPC have been around for a long time (first spec in 1976, according to Wikipedia.)
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"XML was necessary for the first web APIs we had"
People were building systems that had APIs exposed via HTTP a long time before XML.
And what's so special about HTTP? Communicating over the network is old - things like RPC have been around for a long time (first spec in 1976, according to Wikipedia.)