Yeah this is puzzling. REST is much closer to Unix than Windows. "Uniform interface constraint" basically means using very few verbs (GET, POST) on nouns or "

Yeah this is puzzling. REST is much closer to Unix than Windows. "Uniform interface constraint" basically means using very few verbs (GET, POST) on nouns or "files". This is in contrast to a more highly typed RPC style. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25172600/rest-what-exactly-is-meant-by-uniform-interface https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25172600/rest-what-exact... I'd go even further than that and say the web is a straightforward extension of Unix (basically adding URLs, which are amazing, and data driven UI) ... And I'll go even further and say that the Unix-y design CAUSED the success of the web, and if it were more like Windows, it wouldn't have scaled to be truly "world wide" !