Back in the day, HTTP was introduced so machines all around the world could talk to each other.

This would be useful for things like

1. Talking via im (instant messenger)
2. Emails
3. Accessing an algorithm that is only available on a very big machine at Stanford lets say

Slowly the HTTP Protocol was formalised and now spec’d out here - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2616

Mini assignments

Try exploring the network tab and seeing all the HTTP requests that go out when you visit https://google.com