Interesting note: Douglas Crockford's version of JSON's origin story is great. At Yahoo Crockford wanted to return data from an API as a Javascript object becau

Interesting note: Douglas Crockford's version of JSON's origin story is great. At Yahoo Crockford wanted to return data from an API as a Javascript object because it skipped a translation step and avoided messy XML. And his bosses originally objected because there was no JSON spec. So Crockford bought a website, quickly wrote up a JSON spec and published the spec to his new official looking JSON.org site. With an official spec in place and documented on the web, there was no longer cause for his bosses to object to APIs returning JSON :)