Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee , also known as TimBL
English computer scientist and the inventor of the WWW
He created the one-line HTTP protocol in 1989
It simply returns a webpage
This protocol was named HTTP/0.9 in 1991
For each content, TCP connection was needed
It is a simple one-page specification
It has only one method, GET
no HTTP headers, no status/error codes, no cookies, and no other modern features
HTTP/0.9 is built over TCP
The connection is terminated immediately after the response