How I explained REST to my wife…:
Wife: How does it work?
Ryan: The web?
Wife: Yea.
Ryan: Hmmm.. Well, it’s all pretty amazing really. And the funny thing is that it’s all very undervalued. The protocol I was talking about, HTTP – it’s capable of all sorts of neat stuff that people ignore for some reason.
For some reason, my wife never starts conversations by asking who tech luminaries are.