Computer Science · Computer Networks
A topic within Computer Networks, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
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Information Management: A Proposal
Tim Berners-Lee · 1989
Proposes a hypertext system that links documents across a heterogeneous set of existing systems rather than replacing them, becoming the founding…
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Roy Fielding et al. · 1999
Formalises persistent connections, caching and content negotiation that ad hoc HTTP/1.0 deployments had already improvised, turning informal practice…
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Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures
Roy Thomas Fielding · 2000
Derives REST as the architectural style implied by the web's own constraints, such as statelessness and cacheability, rather than as a style imposed…
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Tim Berners-Lee
Proposes a hypertext system that links documents across a heterogeneous set of existing systems rather than replacing them, becoming the founding proposal for the web.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Roy Fielding et al.
Formalises persistent connections, caching and content negotiation that ad hoc HTTP/1.0 deployments had already improvised, turning informal practice into an interoperable standard.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Roy Thomas Fielding
Derives REST as the architectural style implied by the web's own constraints, such as statelessness and cacheability, rather than as a style imposed on it afterwards.
link checked 17 Sept 2026