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chenster on Nov 7, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The API-ization of everything

API is a legacy term created the time before the Internet era standing for Application Programming Interface. Should it be called Web Service to be more precise for API connecting over the Internet?

steveklabnik on Nov 7, 2013 [–]

"Web services" is pretty strongly associated with SOAP, at least in my part of the world.

chenster on Nov 10, 2013 | [–]

Perhaps "Web API" makes more sense.

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