1. Should We Have an API Day?
Telephone Operators
~ API Developers?
Pat Cappelaere
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2. Emma Nutt
1860-1915
The world's first
female telephone
operator, Sept 1
1878 in Boston,
Massachusetts.
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3. ~ 1878 ~ 1910
The First Big API Change
Almon Brown Strowger
Convinced that it should be subscribers, rather than the
operator, to decide who to call
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4. That Simple Change Put Users Back in Control.
It Removed the Switchboard Operator Bottleneck,
The Telephone Could Finally Scale Up...
With This New User Centric, Goal-Driven API...
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5. Pre-IPhone API (Wired 2008)
That Continued To Evolve...
User Always Stays in Control
To SIRI
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6. US Telephone Operators
2011 < 15,000
Bureau Labor Statistics
Wolfram Alpha
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7. Sep 1, 2012 was...
Emma M Nutt Day!
Should Sep 1, 2013 Be API Day?
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