Beyond JSON - The Emergence
Previous - Beyond JSON - Flashback In late nineties, there was a greater push to keep finding the technology for the distributed systems. The biggest challenge was the data exchange between the systems. There is something happening in parallel. The emergence of WWW . In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a memo proposing an Internet-based hypertext system. Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser and server software in late 1990. Browsers became the interpreters for the HTML and we saw the success one of the first truly intended distributed system with runtime interpretation in as early as 1990. Soon people started analyzing the possibility of HTML as the data exchange format. This led to the revolution of emergence of XML . It was about to change the way we think about the distributed systems. Everyone was sure about the success and there was a need to standardize the specifications for cross platform and application data exchange. XML 1.0 specifications came around...