Thirty years ago, on November 11, 1996 the young Brazilian student Rafael Sagula posted the source code for his tiny HTTP download tool online. That was httpget 0.1: a little over 100 lines of C code. Bare bones source code with almost no error checks and limited functionality. httpget When I found the source code of that initial httpget release just days after Rafael put it online, I had no idea how HTTP worked. The language to speak over the network to ask for resources. Okay, I already knew w...