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A Brief History Of HTTPHTTP is an old protocol, initially defined in 1991, with the last major revision HTTP/1.1 published in 1999. Websites in 1999 were very different to the websites we develop today. The amount of data now required to load the home page of an average website is 1.9 MB, with over 100 individual resources required to display a page. Resource being anything from an image or a font to a JavaScript or CSS file. HTTP/1.1 does not perform well when retrieving the large number of res...