In the era before JSON and pervasive Javascript, HTML was the API. The Web is an API. The people saying "API" are really just saying "the same data that's in th

In the era before JSON and pervasive Javascript, HTML was the API. The Web is an API. The people saying "API" are really just saying "the same data that's in the HTML, but stripped of extra junk". HTML was never supposed to be about presentation, it was data meant for a variety of user agents. Has everyone forgotten? Are they too young to remember? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!