HTTP/0.9


Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee , also known as TimBL
English computer scientist and the inventor of the WWW
He created the one-line HTTP protocol in 1989
It simply returns a webpage
This protocol was named HTTP/0.9 in 1991

It is a simple one-page specification
It has only one method, GET


no HTTP headers, no status/error codes, no cookies, and no other modern features
HTTP/0.9 is built over TCP
The connection is terminated immediately after the response




> [The HTTP Protocol As Implemented In W3](https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html)

> [What's New in HTTP/3?](https://betterprogramming.pub/whats-new-in-http-3-10c2455a4f8c)




