That’s completely backwards. Content negotiation was part of HTTP early on (check RFC 1945, HTTP/1.0). Fielding’s REST thesis came after HTTP 1.1, and used HTTP as an example of REST’s concept of representations.
Fielding's REST thesis also goes into great detail and emphasis on using HTTP's content negotiation definitions. This is probably the least used part of Fielding's definition of REST, but he greatly encourages defining custom media types for application objects, and he believes those are a much more fundamental part of REST design than the HTTP verbs, for example.
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