DOM Level 1 – Automated Hacks

Chapter 84: Before Google Maps API — How 1995–1998 Web APIs Set the Rules for Location-Based Apps

Google Maps API arrived much later, but its core ideas—request/response patterns, parameterized URLs, and scripted UI behavior—were forged in 1995–1998 through CGI, HTML forms, and early JavaScript.

UDDI’s Prehistory: How 1995–1998 Web Scripting and CGI Foreshadowed Service Registries (Chapter 79)

UDDI arrived later, but the urge to catalog and discover services began in the 1995–1998 era of CGI scripts, HTML forms, and early browser scripting. This chapter traces how early dynamic web integration shaped the first “registry-like” patterns in web API history.