the.com/interoperability
the art of making things that hate each other play nice.
means the ability of different systems, devices, or organizations to work together and exchange information usefully.
from emerged in 1970s computer networking as engineers realized machines from different vendors needed a shared language to talk at all, later spreading to healthcare, defense, and finance.
usb origincreated in 1996 to end cable chaos
eu lawforces messaging apps to interconnect by 2024
antitrust weaponregulators now use it to break monopolies
for instance
usb-c — eu mandated it as universal phone charger in 2024
email protocols — gmail and outlook talk fine since smtp, 1982
swift banking — lets 11000 banks worldwide move money, since 1973
electronic health records — us hospitals still struggle to share patient data across systems