This article is a list of connectors that doesn't go into much detail into how each changed the world.
The idea that APIs are a singular thing - or started as late as the article suggested - is also sufficiently wrong to put everything else written in the article into doubt.
I agree. The author laughably claims APIs are how applications take to each other and implies they are necessarily remote or on the Internet. Web APIs are one kind of API, but so are various C Library interfaces.
The idea that APIs are a singular thing - or started as late as the article suggested - is also sufficiently wrong to put everything else written in the article into doubt.