eli5;How can http transfer video, audio and files not containing hypertext when it is a ‘Hyper Text Tranfer protocol’

Question

The wikipedia for http says
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The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application layer protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.
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I searched the word hypermedia and it seems to be the extension of hypertext to include video, audio etc. But nowhere in the wikipedia it says that HTTP transfers hypermedia instead of hypertext. It just says that it is used for hypermedia information systems.
So shouldn’t the full form of HTTP be Hypermedia Transfer Protocol ?

In: Technology

Answer 1

Old protocol names often don’t get updated as capabilities expand. Nothing else to add that hasn’t already been said