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Scans of RFCs 1 Through 9 Published via the Computer History Museum

posted by martyb on Sunday January 27 2019, @11:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the RFC?-provide-comments-here dept.

canopic jug writes:

Darius Kazemi has written an update on scans of early Requests for Comments (RFC) at the Computer History Museum. Specifically scans of RFCs 1 through 9 are available. RFC1 being printed in April of 1969. In all, the first nine RFCs are 98 pages. Transcriptions are available at the IETF in their index of RFCs. These documents are occasionally informational or experimental, but by and large define the specifications which define what is now the Internet, ranging from (mostly) defunct Telnet and FTP to the modern TLS and SSH and everything in between such as DNS and from layer 3 on up.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by RandomFactor on Sunday January 27 2019, @05:15PM (4 children)

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 27 2019, @05:15PM (#792657) Journal

    Heh, somewhat like Mostly Harmless I guess.
     
    Agreed - the original concept of using Telnet as a general remote terminal session on other systems is mostly defunct, however the tool itself still meets a fundamental need. If we didn't have it, we would just have to use or write some new tool to do basic communication on an arbitrary port.
     
    e.g. I use telnet for manual SMTP sessions as a matter of course in testing.  

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by ledow on Sunday January 27 2019, @06:37PM (1 child)

    by ledow (5567) on Sunday January 27 2019, @06:37PM (#792691) Homepage

    Yeah, something like netcat?

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @02:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @02:42AM (#792842)

      echo "Dick" | netcat ledow_ip anal_port

  • (Score: 2) by ese002 on Monday January 28 2019, @02:52AM (1 child)

    by ese002 (5306) on Monday January 28 2019, @02:52AM (#792847)

    Agreed - the original concept of using Telnet as a general remote terminal session on other systems is mostly defunct, however the tool itself still meets a fundamental need. If we didn't have it, we would just have to use or write some new tool to do basic communication on an arbitrary port.

    "We" did anyway. It is called Netcat. It can do everything telnet can and a lot more that it can not. I admit, though, I still use telnet a lot because its use is burned into my brain.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @02:30PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @02:30PM (#793005)

      You can use netcat (or nc which is just a link). ncat is an improved version from nmap project.