Web server
Explosive growth and competition (1996–2014)

The publication of RFCs about protocol versions HTTP/1.0 (1996) and HTTP/1.1 (1997, 1999), forced most web servers to comply (not always completely) with those standards. The use of TCP/IP persistent connections (HTTP/1.1) required web servers both to increase the maximum number of concurrent connections allowed and to improve their level of scalability.
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