Huh. The original HTTP (later renamed HTTP/0.9 in order to differentiate it from HTTP/1.0) is really quite similar: it appears to basically be gopher with an ad

Huh. The original HTTP (later renamed HTTP/0.9 in order to differentiate it from HTTP/1.0) is really quite similar: it appears to basically be gopher with an additional method (always GET) prepended to the document reference; no request headers, no response status code nor response headers. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/Evolution_of_HTTP https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_...