JdeBP<p>An interesting data point in the HTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0 switch-off that is happening. (The <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/httpd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>httpd</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/djbwares" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>djbwares</span></a> version 10 defaults to not supporting 0.9 and 1.0 unless explicitly switched on. But I am not alone.)</p><p><a href="http://url.town/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">url.town/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> is a WWW site with a 1990s WWW directory style.</p><p>You won't be able to (directly, without a protocol-upgrading HTTP proxy) use an actual 1990s WWW browser with it, though.</p><p>It doesn't speak HTTP 0.9, and it redirects HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 to HTTPS with modern ciphers that 1990s systems will not have.</p><p>There were people mooting switching off 0.9 and 1.0 in their servers at least as long ago as 2015.</p><p>It's actually happening. But because 0.9 and 1.0 are nowadays nearly 0% of all traffic (according to measurements taken in 2021), few people have noticed.</p><p>Except the people who spin up actual pre-HTTP/1.1 WWW browsers and try to use them.</p><p>IBM WebExplorer for OS/2 was released in 1994, for example,.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/HTTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HTTP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Caddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caddy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WebExplorer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebExplorer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OS2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OS2</span></a></p>