Those times were absolutely great. It's only human to look at the past with a feeling of melancholy and forget how great is the present and the long way we came

Those times were absolutely great. It's only human to look at the past with a feeling of melancholy and forget how great is the present and the long way we came. Today you can actually build your own APIs with very little knowledge and effort: easy to get started frameworks, free or inexpensive hosting in the cloud, lots of freely available data. That's pretty awesome too.