I understand that, but for all intents and purposes people are doing REST over HTTP, when people talk about REST and it's use on the web HTTP is implied, my use

I understand that, but for all intents and purposes people are doing REST over HTTP, when people talk about REST and it's use on the web HTTP is implied, my use of originally was definitely not the correct word choice better verbiage would be "when it started to be used by web application developers REST was". That being said They (REST and HTTP) where envisioned together, while REST does not require HTTP, for the most part that is where it is being utilized, HTTP actions being used as the semantics to transfer the representative state.