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  "headline": "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)",
  "description": "HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the foundational application-layer protocol of the World Wide Web, standardized by the IETF. Originally designed by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989, it defines how clients request resources from servers and how servers respond. HTTP has evolved through four major versions: HTTP/0.9 (1991), HTTP/1.0 (1996) and 1.1 (1997/1999), HTTP/2 (2015), and HTTP/3 (2022 — the first version not using TCP, instead using QUIC over UDP). As of 2025, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 together carry ~60% of global web traffic, and HTTP/3's QUIC transport represents the most fundamental architectural shift since the protocol's inception.",
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