Edit: Thank you for all of your answers. I feel I have a much better understanding of what’s going on. Hope to see y’all on the other side of this.
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It’s when computers talk to each other by calling a 1-900 number.
APIs are the phone lines and languages the computers use. The 900 number is the billable medium for their communication. That’s the short answer.
The longer answers are covered elsewhere already, but I’m trying to give the ELI5-level answer.
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