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"The World Wide Web itself represents the largest implementation of a system conforming to the REST architectural style."

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfe...

"The first edition of REST was developed between October 1994 and August 1995, primarily as a means for communicating Web concepts as we wrote the HTTP/1.0 specification and the initial HTTP/1.1 proposal. It was iteratively improved over the next five years and applied to various revisions and extensions of the Web protocol standards."

- Roy T, Fielding, Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures, 2000

Most interesting is Roy's presentation at RailsConf Europe in 2007 (http://roy.gbiv.com/talks/200709_fielding_rest.pdf):

Use your brains!

- don’t design-by-buzzword

- don’t believe everything you read