Does anybody have any insights about how rest came to be such a buzzword?
My pet theory is that rest was popularized by Rails. If you look at trends [1], rest itself shows up as a super slow trend ramp that only now is starting to diminish... But rails seems to have had the peak of its popularity between 2006/2007 [2], which happens to be the time Rails 1.2 came up with "restful routes" support. Even if this theory is correct, it begs the question how did the Rails developers come in contact with rest themselves and how did it happen that the whole thick thesis derived in just a simple HTTP routes convention ...
My pet theory is that rest was popularized by Rails. If you look at trends [1], rest itself shows up as a super slow trend ramp that only now is starting to diminish... But rails seems to have had the peak of its popularity between 2006/2007 [2], which happens to be the time Rails 1.2 came up with "restful routes" support. Even if this theory is correct, it begs the question how did the Rails developers come in contact with rest themselves and how did it happen that the whole thick thesis derived in just a simple HTTP routes convention ...
1: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...
2: https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/1/19/rails-1-2-rest-admi...