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The original 1998 URL to this article was http, not https. It changed.

It did not change. http is still served but if you are getting https it is due to hsts. Regardless; redirect != it changed

Note that HTTP is also upgraded if the UA requests it with the Upgrade-Insecure-Requests header:

  $ curl -I -H 'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1' 'http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html'
  HTTP/1.1 307 Temporary Redirect
  location: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
  vary: Upgrade-Insecure-Requests

$ curl -i 'http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html'

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 10:18:14 GMT

last-modified: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 23:09:53 GMT ...

  $ curl -I 'https://www.w3.org/'
  HTTP/2 200 
  [...]
  strict-transport-security: max-age=15552000; includeSubdomains; preload
  content-security-policy: upgrade-insecure-requests

The original URL still works, that's the key.

Fair point but I believe the article refers to URI's rather than URL's so they're still technically correct.

Edit - I've just had a look and URI covers the lot so my bad

In the next 5-10 years the https:// will be amp:// when Google completes its process of consuming the web like noface in Spirited Away.

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