Because I have so many smart folks in my Twitter timeline I want to put out some of the seeds for stories I am working on for 2020. I want your help determining what has set the stage for the world of APIs we all believe in so much. Here are just a handful of the nuggets I have pulled out of my research and reading.
Early On
- 1933 - Telex Messaging
- 1949 - Memex (Linked Documents)
- 1949 - Computer Talk Over Phone
- 1958 - Digital Phone Lines
- 1959 - Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) Wide Area Network
- 1961 - Computer Time Sharing
- 1963 - Hypertext
- 1963 - Hypermedia
- 1964 - Sync Satellite Television Network
- 1964 - IBM Sabre Reservation System
- 1966 - Michigan Educational Research Information Triad (MERIT)
- 1968 - Multiplexing
- 1969 - Mass produced software components By McIlroy, Malcolm Douglas
- 1969 - Host Software The First RFC
- 1969 - ARPANET Four Initial Nodes Established
- 1969 - Compuserve
1970s
- 1970 - ARPANET Reaches East Coast (MIT)
- 1971 - Email
- 1971 - File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- 1971 - TELNET
- 1971 - ARPANET Has 23 nodes
- 1972 - ARPANET Has 29 nodes
- 1973 - ARPANET Has 40 nodes
- 1974 - ARPANET Has 46 nodes
- 1974 - Transmission Control Program (TCP)
- 1974 - Systems Network Architecture (SNA)
- 1975 - ARPANET Has 57 Modes
- 1976 - CYCLADES Computer Network
- 1976 - X.25 Packet Switching Protocol
- 1979 - First Commercial Cellular Network
1980s
- 1980 - USENET
- 1981 - ARPANET Has 213 Nodes
- 1981 - TCP/IP
- 1982 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
- 1983 - ARPANET Switches to TCP/IP
- 1983 - IPV4
- 1983 - Berkely Sockets
- 1984 - CD-ROM
- 1984 - Domain Name System (DNS)
- 1984 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- 1984 - Open Systems Interconnect (OSI)
- 1985 - Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL)
- 1985 - National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET)
- 1987 - Transport Layer Interface (TLI)
1990s
- 1991 - Gopher
- 1991 - Windows Sockets API
- 1991 - Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
- 1991 - HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 1.0
- 1993 - Mosaic
- 1994 - Netscape Navigator
- 1994 - Uniform Resource Locator (URL),
- 1995 - Internet Explorer
- 1995 - HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 2.0
- 1995 - Secure Socket Shell (SSH)
- 1995 - Open Network Computing (ONC) Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
- 1996 - HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.0)
- 1996 - XML
- 1996 - HTTP/1.1
- 1996 - Web Users Reach 36 Million
- 1997 - 802.11
- 1997 - RSS
- 1998 - XML-RPC
- 1998 - IPV6
- 1999 - MQTT
2000s
- 2000 - REST
- 2000 - Salesforce
- 2000 - SOAP
- 2000 - eBay
- 2001 - Protocol Buffers
- 2002 - Amazon
- 2003 - Delicious
- 2004 - Flickr
- 2004 - Web Services
- 2005 - JSON-RPC
- 2005 - ProgrammableWeb
- 2005 - YouTube
- 2006 - Amazon S3
- 2006 - Google Maps
- 2006 - JSON
- 2006 - Facebook
- 2006 - Amazon EC2
- 2006 - Twitter
- 2006 - Mashery
- 2006 - OAuth
- 2007 - iPhone
- 2007 - Twilio
- 2008 - GitHub
- 2008 - Android
- 2008 - Reddit
- 2009 - Foursquare
- 2009 - Amazon RDS
2010s
- 2010 - Nest
- 2010 - Instagram
- 2010 - Oracle V Google API Copyright
- 2010 - Swagger
- 2010 - Docker
- 2011 - Fitbit
- 2011 - Apiary + API Blueprint
- 2011 - Stripe
- 2011 - MIcroservices
- 2011 - Websockets
- 2011 - Kafka
- 2011 - Steve Yegge AWS Rant
- 2012 - President Obama Federal Government API Mandate
- 2013 - Slack
- 2014 - Kubernetes
- 2014 - Uber
- 2014 - Postman
- 2014 - Spotify
- 2015 - gRPC
- 2015 - JSON Web Token (JWT)
- 2015 - Apigee IPOs
- 2015 - HTTP/2
- 2015 - Amazon Launches AWS API Gateway
- 2015 - GraphQL
- 2016 - AsyncAPI
- 2016 - Amazon Alexa Voice Service
- 2018 - HTTP/3
I am working on a variety of stories, guides, and marketing materials for Postman around everything that has led up to this moment. I'm going to keep adding to this list, and flesing out the details of how each of these points in time have helped get us here.
If you have any additions feel free to lobby me via Twitter or email, and I'll consider adding. Share the moments in time, the technology, and how it helped set the tone for what we are all doing in 2019, and I might add it to the list, baking into the Postman storytelling throughout 2020.
