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Defined the minimal HTTP/0.9 client-server request and response exchange used by the early World Wide Web software to retrieve hypertext documents over TCP/IP.
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The record is the original 1991 protocol as archived by W3C. HTTP/1.0, later standardization, browser/server engineering and wider Web development have broader authorship.
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Berners-Lee: the original HTTP protocol
Defined the minimal HTTP/0.9 client-server request and response exchange used by the early World Wide Web software to retrieve hypertext documents over TCP/IP.
Scientific scope
The record is the original 1991 protocol as archived by W3C. HTTP/1.0, later standardization, browser/server engineering and wider Web development have broader authorship.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Tim Berners-Lee
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.