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Defining the API lifecycle in a modular, reusable, and machine readable way that can help others learn about what the API lifecycle could be, as as define their own evolving API lifecycle.
https://apis.how/products/web-design/
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History of APIs? #148

Open kinlane opened 2 years ago

kinlane commented 2 years ago

This is the overall history - 500K.

kinlane commented 2 years ago

Wilkes and Wheeler's 1951 book The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer contains the first published API specification. Joshua Bloch considers that Wilkes and Wheeler "latently invented" the API because it is more of a concept that is discovered than invented.[6] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API#:~:text=Wilkes%20and%20Wheeler's%201951%20book,that%20is%20discovered%20than%20invented.