I don’t expect that many developers today fully appreciate the quiet glory that is REST and JSON. But then, most developers today have not been around the software business as long as I have. It’s only natural that we old timers have a clearer idea of how incredibly far the technology has come. I’ve been writing code long enough to remember when computers had 5¼-inch floppy drives and exactly zero network cards. Connectivity was a 2400 baudmodem talking to a local BBS via the plain o...
