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Rest Architecture Style Representational State Transfer Year 1996 Berners-Lee writes that the "Web's major goal was to be a shared information space through which people and machines could communicate." Year 2000 Hypermedia was chosen as the user interface because of its simplicity and generality. Hypermedia, an extension of the term called hypertext, is a non-linear medium of information that includes graphics, audio, video, plain text, and hyperlinks. A non-linear medium is any medium that can be navigated through random access. The rapid growth of the Internet and the consequently deployed architecture had significant limitations in its support for extensibility, shared caching, and intermediaries, which made it difficult to develop ad-hoc solutions to the growing problems. The challenge was to introduce a new set of functionality to an architecture that was already widely deployed, and how to ensure that its introduction does not adversely impact,...