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13 March 2026

  • curprev 12:2812:28, 13 March 2026 Dex talk contribs 7,767 bytes +7,767 Created page with "= Tabular Data: From Paper Ledgers to APIs = '''Summary:''' Long before computers existed, organisations recorded information in tables. While the technologies used to store and serve data have evolved — from paper ledgers to flat files, database servers, and modern APIs — the fundamental shape of most business data has remained remarkably consistent. This article explores that continuity, and how successive generations of systems have focused less on changing the..."