Application programming interface (API)
API is a set of codes, protocols, and tools that are used to create software and applications and allow communication between software programs.
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2000
Roy Fielding's dissertation Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures at UC Irvine in 2000 outlined Representational state transfer (REST) and described the idea of a "network-based Application Programming Interface" that Fielding contrasted with traditional "library-based" APIs. XML and JSON web APIs saw widespread commercial adoption beginning in 2000 and continuing as of 2021. The web API is now the most common meaning of the term API.
1990
The API was defined simply as "a set of services available to a programmer for performing certain tasks" by technologist Carl Malamud.
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