HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the [[World Wide Web]], where [[hypertext]] documents include [[hyperlink]]s to other resources that the user can easily access, for example by a [[Computer mouse|mouse]] click or by tapping the screen in a web browser.
Development of HTTP was initiated by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989 and summarized in a simple document describing the behavior of a client and a server using the first HTTP protocol version that was named 0.9.<ref name=“HTTP/0.9-specifications”>
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