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		bdcravens on Dec 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your ... When HTTP was designed, there also weren't any images, CSS, or Javascript.

snakeyjake on Dec 31, 2024 [–]

There was no support for images in the two pre-1.0 versions of HTTP.

The two versions written by one man as experiments and used by (by reasonable interpretation) absolutely nobody.

HTTP 1.0, the first "real" HTTP did indeed include support for images at some point prior to being finalized as RFC 1945.

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