Wife: Who is "Roy Fielding"?
Me: Some guy. He’s smart.
Wife: Oh? What did he do?
Me: He helped write the first web servers and then did a ton of research explaining why the web works the way it does. His name is on the specification for the protocol that is used to get pages from servers to your browser.
Wife: Oh, sorry, I thought he was in that movie with Jennifer Aniston.
Me: The web is 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.
Wife: Can you please stop it. I've been trying to catch the finale of ER for the longest time.
Me: But HTTP is really simple to explain.
Wife: Some other time honey, not now.