On April 7 1969, the first Request for Comment document is drafted by an engineer on the Pentagon's ARPAnet project, a precursor to the modern Internet.
This day is considered to be the symbolic birth date of the net because the RFC documents 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.
One important note about RFC documents is that each document is issued with a unique serial number. This means that any submitted paper cannot be overwritten. On the other hand, updates and corrections can be submitted on a separate RFC.
What is ARPAnet?
ARPAnet was the network that became the basis for the Internet. Based on a concept first published in 1967, ARPAnet was developed under the direction of the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). In 1969, the idea became a modest reality with the interconnection of four university computers.
For more details about this topic, please refer to the detailed article about ARPnet published on Wikipedia.
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