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The very first Request for Comments (RFC 1). "To propose and discuss technical methodologies applicable to internet technology", went out on April 7, 1969. The date is often cited as the symbolic birth date of the net. There is also support for Jan. 1, 1983, as the birth of the net, which was the date, the National Science Foundation’s university network backbone, a precursor to the World Wide Web, became operational utilizing the TCP/IP communication standard. More