Strike the trendy "web" qualifier, and I'd argue we still have a problem, namely that "data" tends to outlive "behavior" by many, many years, and this fact is i

Strike the trendy "web" qualifier, and I'd argue we still have a problem, namely that "data" tends to outlive "behavior" by many, many years, and this fact is important and useful in both computing and civilization at large. This is why, in theory at least, relational data stores are more promising "trans-filesystem" candidates than either method-based object systems or "APIs". Hierarchy is inessential; data storage is not. To say nothing of the fact that "APIs", Web or otherwise, aren't actually a means of storing data; at least in the context of things like "pictures" and "music", we obviously can never have "turtles all the way down."