7 April 20

51 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 principles in that document (and the people working with it) to generate the global Internet and the World Wide Web. RFC 1 (meaning Request For Comments) set out the standards for communications between computer networks. Six and a half months after this event, on 29 October 1969, the first "inter-network" message was successfully transmitted. My tie features a multitude of strings of symbols and characters that resemble what we call Uniform Resource Locators, or URLs, commonly called Web addresses.