7 April 1969: Happy Birthday, RFC 1
It is what it is: RFC 1
Tony Long:
1969: The publication of the first “request for comments,” or RFC, documents paves the way for the birth of the internet.More here.
April 7 is often cited as a symbolic birth date of the net because the RFC memoranda contain research, proposals and methodologies applicable to internet technology. RFC documents provide a way for engineers and others to kick around new ideas in a public forum; sometimes, these ideas are adopted as new standards by the Internet Engineering Task Force.
posted by Fergie @ 4/07/2007 12:01:00 AM
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