[Gunax]

I actually really don't think most people know what it means.

Personally, I was on a team of over 10 devs and I am pretty sure none of us knew what REST really meant (including me at the time).

The author is practically correct--RESTful is so misunderstood that even large companies label their APIs as RESTful when they aren't.

[petee]

I concur most don't know what it means. Years ago I started reading around trying to understand it, and all I found was that the ones who supposedly did understand, really couldn't explain it clearly; and they all had different definitions.

Reminds me of "if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"