Since 'Web' refers to a web of links between pages, I would personally side on the combination of HTTP with HTML, but your point is well taken. There's also th

Since 'Web' refers to a web of links between pages, I would personally side on the combination of HTTP with HTML, but your point is well taken. There's also the choice between whether 'invented' refers to the moment when a new technology first becomes usable, or whether 'invented' refers to the moment when a new technology is first used: was the web invented when a client and server were both setup and capable of communicating? or, when a client and server were first used to communicate? Only a difference of minutes, probably, but potentially significant.