Why do so many APIs boast about being RESTful?

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Published on 2012-07-07T18:45:03Z Indexed on 2012/07/07 21:22 UTC
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I have noticed that many APIs I have encountered such as Facebook's old API and Skydrive's API boast about being RESTful.

Hence, I looked up what REST means on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer), but I don't understand why do APIs boast about being RESTful.

Doesn't RESTful just mean that an API works via communications across the web such as via HTTP? What's the big deal? This sounds like any API that relies on third-parties.

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