api-timelines.md
API Evangelist Network API
The API, resource, industry, and people timelines behind sixteen years of research.
GET https://api.apievangelist.com/v1
/timelines/api
The API timeline — the moments that led to and shaped web APIs, from early communication technology through the modern API economy, in chronological order.
page
integer · min: 1
Default: 1
limit
integer · min: 1 · max: 100
Default: 25
fields
string
Comma-separated sparse field projection.
200
Timeline events in chronological order.
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object
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Doc[]
GET https://api.apievangelist.com/v1
/timelines/resources
The resources timeline — which digital resources became APIs, and when, in chronological order.
page
integer · min: 1
Default: 1
limit
integer · min: 1 · max: 100
Default: 25
fields
string
Comma-separated sparse field projection.
200
Timeline events in chronological order.
meta
object
data
Doc[]
GET https://api.apievangelist.com/v1
/timelines/industries
The industries timeline — the industrial history that frames how API infrastructure evolves, in chronological order.
page
integer · min: 1
Default: 1
limit
integer · min: 1 · max: 100
Default: 25
fields
string
Comma-separated sparse field projection.
200
Timeline events in chronological order.
meta
object
data
Doc[]
GET https://api.apievangelist.com/v1
/timelines/people
The people timeline — the people whose work made compute, the internet, and APIs possible.
page
integer · min: 1
Default: 1
limit
integer · min: 1 · max: 100
Default: 25
fields
string
Comma-separated sparse field projection.
200
Timeline entries.
meta
object
data
Doc[]