A short history of "web services"

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1993: Maybe we could someday have services on this thing, Tim!

1995: We plan to offer services of various kinds on websites.

1998: There are services available, but the free ones don't work very well. Soon the world of paid web services will be a reality.

1999: There are services available for pay! Oops, we went under.

2003: There are no free services. There are web services for pay and they don't work. This is the future. LICK IT UP.

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When you say those words I think Web Services, meaning a preposterously underpowered RPC library that tunnels through HTTP. We've definitely got that today.

And we have services that people use through the web, and they seems to work, even if they aren't Web Services.