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> 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.





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