REST, including HATEOAS, was largely retrospective documentation of the architectural underpinning of the WWW by Roy Fielding (who played an important role in web technology from 1993 on, was the co-lead for the HTTP/1.0 spec, the lead for the original HTTP/1.1 spec, and also, IIRC, lead or co-lead on the original URL spec. The things it documented existed before it documented them.
> You aren't saying hypermedia/hyperlinks served by a backend equal hateaos are you?
That’s exactly what it is.
> hateaos is from 2000 isn't it? Long after hyperlinks and the web already existed.
> Over the past six years, the REST architectural style has been used to guide the design and development of the architecture for the modern Web, as presented in Chapter 6. This work was done in conjunction with my authoring of the Internet standards for the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI), the two specifications that define the generic interface used by all component interactions on the Web.
This is straight from the intro of fielding’s doctoral dissertation.
REST / HATEOAS is basically one of the main architects of the web saying “these are the things we did that made the web work so well”. So yes, REST was published after the web already existed, but no that doesn’t mean that the web is not REST / HATEOAS.
You aren't saying hypermedia/hyperlinks served by a backend equal hateaos are you?
hateaos is from 2000 isn't it? Long after hyperlinks and the web already existed.