N-gated Hacker News🎉 BREAKING NEWS: Internet has rules! 🎉 Apparently, #RFCs are like ancient scrolls from a time when the internet was the Wild West, and engineers spoke in tongues unknown to mere mortals. 📜🤓 Welcome to a world where tech bloggers rediscover fire. 🔥
https://ackreq.github.io/posts/what-are-rfcs/ #InternetRules #TechBloggers #RediscoveringFire #WildWest #HackerNews #ngated
https://ackreq.github.io/posts/what-are-rfcs/ #InternetRules #TechBloggers #RediscoveringFire #WildWest #HackerNews #ngated
What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet
Think about it for a second: could the internet exist without standards and protocols? Of course not! Computers need shared rules and agreements to communicate with one another. Even human languages, like English, work much the same way. They function as a kind of communication protocol because we’ve all agreed on words and grammar that carry shared meaning. In both cases, whether among machines or people, communication depends on common understanding.