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."

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...and IBM/360 is 40 today

[Jayfar]

It's in the book. You could look it up (or google).

More on RFCs

[Anonymous Coward]

If you don't know what an RFC is, then here is what you need to know.

Re:Strange

[cethiesus]

RFC2223 - Instructions to RFC Authors

RFC 0825 - Request for comments on Requests For Comments

Re:Strange

[Anonymous Coward]

borked link. lets try that again, shall we?

RFC 0825 - Request for comments on Requests For Comments

RFC1543

[RAMMS EIN]

Read RFC1543

teletype models

[John_Sauter]

We used Model 33's and Model 35's. These used 7-bit ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) rather than the 5-bit Baudot used by the Model 28. The low cost of the Model 33 made ASCII the standard character set for non-IBM computers of the time, and hence for the Internet.

The Model 33 and Model 35 were upper case only; the lower case Model 37 came later.
John Sauter (J_Sauter@Empire.Net)

Oldest RFC

[JackAsh]

This may be odd, but a quick jaunt through the archive shows that RFC4 seems to predate it by a few days: it was born on March 24th vs. RFC1's April 7th...

-Jack Ash

RFC 2555 - 30 years of RFC's

[FePe]

Read RFC 2555. It gives an interesting view of inside of the RFC world. It's written by some of the key people that invented and have made RFC's what they are today.