so, Fielding uses, if you read this primary document and if you talk to people that like REST, you know, they have this whole alternate vocabulary that means different things to us that it does to other people so, distributed hypermedia, is one of those things where ok, it's two words, it sort of fly past your brain and you don't think about what it actually means but, so this is what the Web is optimized for, right we're sharing hypermedia documents, HTML, over the Web, at gigantic scale it's all distributed and, this is part of a constraint that is become sort of, kind of famous, relatively recently, it's the number one thing that is easy to point out to people that they don't do with their APls to make it non-RESful and that's called HATEOAS it stands for 