Should We Have an API Day?

Pat Cappelaere

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Telephone Operators ~ API Developers?

Emma Nutt1860-1915

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The world's first female telephone operator, Sept 1 1878 in Boston, Massachusetts.

The First Big API ChangeAlmon Brown StrowgerConvinced that it should be subscribers, rather than the operator, to decide who to call

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~ 1910~ 1878

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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That Continued To Evolve...User Always Stays in Control

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Pre-IPhone API (Wired 2008)

To SIRI

US Telephone Operators

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Wolfram Alpha

2011 < 15,000Bureau Labor Statistics

Sep 1, 2012 was...

Emma M Nutt Day!

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Should Sep 1, 2013 Be API Day?