Here are a few things I still don't know what it stands for.
Soap
Rest
I know what they do but what they stand for, is it important to know the acronym do you think, other than winning a developer pub / bar quiz. I wish there was a development orientated bar somewhere.
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SOAP is Simple Object Access Protocol, a simple method to exchange data between a client application and a web service. It's called "simple" even though it's XML because people at Microsoft like to have fun: blog.mattmags.com/2011/05/19/don-b...
I'd say it isn't important as long as you know what you mean. I couldn't tell you what SOAP or REST stood for. But I can tell you what it is, I feel that's more important
SOAP and REST are two different ways to communicate with a remote host to exchange data and/or make changes to a remote system. SOAP is an older protocol with a dependency on XML while REST tends to be JSON-based (but not always) and more in line with how HTTP works.
Both operate over HTTP(S).
REST is Representational State Transfer :)