It's hard to emphasize how different the mindset of the late 2000s Internet is to nowadays. APIs were more readily available and open. Mashups were usually enc

It's hard to emphasize how different the mindset of the late 2000s Internet is to nowadays. APIs were more readily available and open. Mashups were usually encouraged, so long as you didn't generate undue stress. Nowadays its a million tiny business silos hoarding tediously-obscure-but-still-sometimes-useful data. And you have to prove that what you want to do with the API doesn't infringe on their ability to capitalize on it better. The irony is that all the data is way more easily accessible from a technical POV now due to the prevalence of SPAs and REST, but the legal environment is significantly more dangerous.