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== History ==
== History ==
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HTTP was developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 [http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1990]. At the time it was known as HTTP/0.9 and was updated and extended many times by many people, yet was not a standard until it was published in RFC-1945 [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945|RFC-1945] as HTTP/1.0. HTTP was designed to supplement and transfer HTML, also developed by Tim Berners-Lee. Modern servers and clients typically use HTTP/1.1 which was defined as an update to HTTP/1.0 in RFC-2616 [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616|RFC-2616].