What is HTTP/2 and is it going to speed up the web?
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#3BEM)
Biggest change to how the web works since 1999 should make browsing on desktop and mobile faster
The web is about to get faster thanks to a new version of HTTP - the biggest change since 1999 to the protocol that underpins the world wide web as we know it today.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol is familiar to most as the http:// at the beginning of a web address. It governs the connections between a user's browser and the server hosting a website, invented by the father of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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