54 years ago today, the world was not aware of the publication of "RFC 1" by the Network Working Group at UCLA. It would take (only) four years for the engineers working with the principles in that document to create the global Internet and then the World Wide Web. RFC 1 (meaning Request For Comments) set out the standards for communications between computer networks. Six and a half months later, on 29 October 1969, the first "inter-network" text message was successfully transmitted. My tie features a multitude of strings of symbols and characters resembling Uniform Resource Locators, or URLs, commonly called Web addresses. I'm also wearing my new tie bar built from part of a computer circuit board.
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