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Happy 35th birthday, RFC 1!
An anonymous reader writes "On April 7th, 1969, the first ever RFC was published, describing the networking technology behind the then-nascent ARPAnet. In the intervening 35 years, networking technology has come a long way, but it brings perspective to the modern Internet to reflect on how it all began."
Ok, I surely failed but it's funny :)
I'd have thought the first RFC would have been defining the structure of RFC's. :)
Is it too late to raise comments now?
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Do we get cake?
It was 19 when I finally got a dialup connection to a server with a shell account. I know my life could have been spent more wisely...had I only been connected sooner.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Somehow, I get the feeling Al Gore will not be invited to its birthday party.
This was posted 5 years ago. It has a birthday every year, folks :)
RP
I see no reason to upgrade to RFC 2, just useless bloat I say. RFC1's worked great for 35 years, and it'll work great for another 35.
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A simple RFC fights in Vietnam, lives through the turbulent sixties, experiences the wide lapels and platforms of the drugged out seventies, and ends up a washed up April fool's pigeon joke.
Wasn't even a fetus by then. Just a mere RFC between my 'rents.
This one is my favourite:
RFC 1149: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
Will Mel Gibson be making a movie based on RFC 1?
But 0! (zero factorial) is equal to 1, so what's your problem?
If you meant RFC0, I'm working on that right now, and it will be published in 1967 as soon as I can get this flux capacitor to work...
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but he still lives in his parents basement.
No no you got it all wrong. Forget about everything but the internet in that situation. Suddenly teenage-young-adult males are outnumbered by their mothers on the internet rather than dominating it. It would be so different, so weird.
Request for Contraception?
I've just patented the RFC process. You owe me a dollar.
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
Well, at least trolls would be send to bed by their mothers when they do their thing.
Just imagine what a "First Post" thread would look:
- Fris Psot! (by Johny the Troll)
- Johny, I told you a million time not to annoy the nice people on Slashdot. Now go do you're homework!. (by Johny's Mother)
- oh mom, I'll do it after dinner.
- Now listen here young man, you'll do as you're told or do I have to send your father an e-mail?
No, RFC 0 is the meta RFC. Unfortunately, documentation of the 0-based numbering scheme ("see RFC 0"), that has become so popular with computers and their geeks since the 1960s, wasn't submitted to the RFC-editor for years, well after RFC 10. By then, the RFC-editor was forced to reject it, as RFCs document actual implementations, and are merely Requests For Comments from other users of the system, not design documents. The vast preponderance of RFCs had been written (so it seemed - they'd almost completely debugged ARPANet) by RFC 10's era, so it would have been a cruel irony to finish the series merely revising the counting base to recognize the "zeroth" RFC, which indicates that RFCs start at "0".
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... in response that RFC.
Lemme get my super-omniscient-archive up and running... oh yes, here it is. Comment #1, in reply to RFC1. Dated 11 seconds after RFC1 was issued:
"It'll never work."
Oddly, Comment #2, which was received within seconds of comment #1, was a cryptic
"Woot! First Comment!"
And th rest, as they say, is history.
help me i've cloned myself and can't remember which one I am
First RFC! W00t!
It was Al Gore! Just ask him...
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!