Public Web APIs and the Rise of Mashups (1995–1998): Browser Scripting, CGI, and Forms
From HTML forms and CGI to early JavaScript-driven integrations, 1995–1998 laid the groundwork for public web APIs and the mashup mindset—years before AJAX.
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Public Web APIs and the Rise of Mashups in Web API History (1990–1994) — Chapter 13
Between 1990 and 1994, the Web’s simplest building blocks—URLs, HTTP requests, and server-side gateway scripts—quietly formed the earliest “public web APIs.” This chapter traces how those early interfaces made proto-mashups possible long before the term existed.