HTTP protocol version 1.1 is optimized for complex HTML pages transferring, and allows negotiation of language and encoding formats.
The minimal request contains a command (GET), a url (/hello.txt), the version (HTTP/1.1), the Host field, an empty line.

GET /hello.txt HTTP/1.1
Host: 10.10.10.11 80

The answer contains a header, composed of many fields (server, date,...), the length of the content (here 13), and the content as text.

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: SimpleHTTP/0.6 Python/2.7.15+
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 17:06:12 GMT
Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 13

Hello world

The headers of the answer contains lots of usefull information about the server, its version...
Here is an Apache server in version 0.8.4 that runs scripts with a php interpreter in version 7.3.13.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache/0.8.4
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
X-Powered-By: PHP/7.3.13

$ printf 'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost 8001\r\n\r\n' | nc localhost 8001