There is no Hypermedia with REST APIs, so let's call them HyperText Transfer Protocol APIs. But wait, there is no HyperText transferred with most of the APIs. W

There is no Hypermedia with REST APIs, so let's call them HyperText Transfer Protocol APIs. But wait, there is no HyperText transferred with most of the APIs. What if this happens on top of TLS, is it then Transport Layer Security wrapped HyperText Transfer Protocol Application Programming Interface. Didn't we call them Web APIs at some point?