I was being sarcastic with the maybes and countering your statement that the meme is entirely web-dev. But hey, it’s just a picture on the internet and I thought it was great we don’t need to go round and round about every aspect of the analogy.
So there is no desktop program that calls to a remote server for information someplace? Maybe like a server database on what games you can join, player movements and speed who is online, maybe even what music you can play? Or maybe a mobile/phone app that does the same? A way to have a standard interface but get new and updated info delivered to you in that specific form? This information would be delivered from one specific place to another, maybe to your table/device.
Front end and back end happen in more environments than you think.
That being said I can get delivery to my terminal/cmd from a ton of places that have nothing to do with each other kind of like getting pizza and tacos delivered.
For anyone about to say API is more like a delivery driver an not a server, realize we are in Programmer_humor, not web_dev.
No joke that was the first thing I thought but realized it’s freaking perfect.
Armordillo!!