Shoudl We Have An API Day?
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The document proposes having an "API Day" to celebrate the evolution of APIs from telephone operators to modern APIs. It notes that in 1878, Emma Nutt became the world's first female telephone operator in Boston. In 1910, Almon Brown Strowger developed an automated telephone exchange that removed the need for operators, allowing phones to scale up. This new operator-free API model put users in control. APIs continued to evolve and change over time to remain user-centric. The document suggests that just as September 1st was made "Emma M Nutt Day", September 1st could become an annual "API Day" to recognize the impact and importance of APIs.
Shoudl We Have An API Day?
- 1. Should We Have an API Day? Telephone Operators ~ API Developers? Pat Cappelaere 1
- 2. Emma Nutt 1860-1915 The world's first female telephone operator, Sept 1 1878 in Boston, Massachusetts. 2
- 3. ~ 1878 ~ 1910 The First Big API Change Almon Brown Strowger Convinced that it should be subscribers, rather than the operator, to decide who to call 3
- 4. That Simple Change Put Users Back in Control. It Removed the Switchboard Operator Bottleneck, The Telephone Could Finally Scale Up... With This New User Centric, Goal-Driven API... 4
- 5. Pre-IPhone API (Wired 2008) That Continued To Evolve... User Always Stays in Control To SIRI 5
- 6. US Telephone Operators 2011 < 15,000 Bureau Labor Statistics Wolfram Alpha 6
- 7. Sep 1, 2012 was... Emma M Nutt Day! Should Sep 1, 2013 Be API Day? 7