Roy Fielding's Misappropriatted REST Dissertation

https://twobithistory.org/2020/06/28/rest.html: This is why, rather than saying that nobody understands REST, we should just think of the term “REST” as having been misappropriated. The modern notion of a REST API has historical links to Fielding’s REST architecture, but really the two things are separate.

Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures

title Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures author Roy Thomas Fielding published Dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2000 url https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/fielding_dissertation.pdf