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Re:On the web today, we don't use servers, we use services by fragmede on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:32PM (#28472309)
That's a very specific definition for service. What's going to happen to that definition when technology eventually moves past using REST APIs?

A program running on your school's mainframe that you access via some sort of terminal is a computing service from before the Internet.

Plenty of people use a Unix prompt to access both local and remote computers. That its not your preferred method is fine, but there are people out there that prefer it! If those command line tools are hitting the same API (eg using curl), what then?

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Re:On the web today, we don't use servers, we use services by SavantIdiot on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:34PM (#28472328)
Yes, that is why I pointed out that "email" is also an API. Do you think a person reads the email in the OP's note? (not being sarcastic) I'm pretty sure it triggers an update through an IFTTT-like flow / post-hook on receive.
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