Reason behind making http stateless

Question

I want to know the reason behind making the http stateless. There should be some reason in making the http stateless. I searched the whole internet and found nothing.

Answer 1

You might find this quote from Roy Thomas Fielding's Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures helpful. This is about REST which is particular way of using HTTP:

We next add a constraint to the client-server interaction: communication must be stateless in nature [...] This constraint induces the properties of visibility, reliability, and scalability.