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

Http is just a name. All it is is a specific method to go to a server and say “can you send me this file, please?”. While the file originally was intended to be text the protocol has no qualms about sending non-text related data when asked to do so.