API discovery – Automated Hacks

UDDI Before UDDI: Early Service Registries and the Web’s First HTTP Interfaces (1990–1994) — Chapter 9

Chapter 9 traces how the early Web (1990–1994) created the technical and organizational need for service registries—years before UDDI—via HTTP’s simple request/response model, CGI scripts, and directory/search approaches that foreshadowed API discovery.

Chapter 8 (1990–1994): The Birth of the Web, Early HTTP Interfaces, and the Roots of WSDL-Style API Discovery

From HTTP’s minimalist beginnings to early dynamic web gateways, 1990–1994 laid the practical foundations for later enterprise API discovery—ultimately motivating WSDL-style service descriptions even though WSDL itself arrived years later.