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HTTP plus TLS. Browser vendors made it the default; Let’s Encrypt made the cert free. The standardization this mood never quite signed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS
The clear protocol the web was. 1.0 / 1.1 still speak fine on a LAN and on anything that never needed a storefront badge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP
The CA that ended the $50 cert. Official desk for the lock icon that showed up on every login page.
https://letsencrypt.org
June 1999. The document the clear web was written against. Still readable without a PKI lecture.
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616
