JSON is an acronym for JavaScript Object Notation and represents a data-interchange format that uses human-readable text. It is often used to store information on the client side of a web application in an easily parseable way. JSON can be parsed by numerous programming languages like Python, Ruby, PHP, etc., and it’s also compatible with XML.
JSON was originally proposed by Douglas Crockford in 2001 as part of the JSP scripting language from Sun Microsystems. The JavaScript dialect of JSON was later standardized by ECMA International as ECMA-404 standard
JSON is the most widely used data format in data science, web services, and other areas of software development.
JSON has been standardized as RFC 7159, which was published in 2015.