Mike Raiford wrote:
> Heh, very true. How did the idea "Hey, lets make this API available on 
> an http service" get started anyway?

Because people wanted to push their crap at you through a firewall without 
you needing to get corporate approval for a new hole. The same reason java 
class files are officially served as the MIME type for "we haven't 
configured the server for java class files".

> Possibly. 

It certainly was, by about 5:1, maybe 5 years ago.

And in 1992 or so, the USA phone company's traffic on Mother's Day carried 
more bits than an entire year's worth of internet backbone traffic.

Of course, stuff changes fast, with web mail and VoIP and cell phones and 
such, so it's hard to say how much that counts nowadays.

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