The first RFC was written in 1969 by Steve Crocker, a 25 y/o grad student. He worked all night on it, writing in the bathroom so as to not wake up his roommates

RFC1 described the "handshake" between two ARPANET hosts

Today there are over 8600 RFCs

📝 https://t.co/fmedL0DSUp pic.twitter.com/i8jG5g3vIm

— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) November 30, 2021

the gif is from this YouTube video, an introduction to the ENIAC, where they interview some folks and show off the pieces of the ENIAC on display at the University of Pennsylvania.https://t.co/fxqCjC2Zqw

— Tube Time (@TubeTimeUS) November 26, 2021

The du command for Unix was written on November 3, 1971. It is 50 years ago. Almost as old as me lmao. Happy birthday du command. https://t.co/l4SzFVudc3 I like duf more https://t.co/MBmcHXnUiX but some prefer to use the ncdu on Linux https://t.co/UgB0HGhbQX What do you prefer? pic.twitter.com/0owrdkDQzL

— nixCraft 🐧 (@nixcraft) November 3, 2021