Happy Symbolic 50th Birthday Internet!

Apparently, there are a lot of days that might be considered as the birth date of the internet. Maybe not what most people think of when they think “internet”, but 50 years ago today (1969) the first RFC (Request For Comment) documents were published. The RFC documents describe the theoretical foundations of the internet and interconnecting computers. As well as outlining the methodologies.

You can read more about it here in this Wired article and the history of the internet on this Wikipedia page…

• Birth of That Thing We Call the Internet
• History of the Internet