RFC 1300

RFC 1300: Remembrances of Things Past 🎀

Okay bestie, this is RFC 1300, called Remembrances of Things Past 🌸. S. Greenfield wrote it (Stanley R. Greenfield at Ziff-Davis), and it's dated February 1992. It's an info doc, not a standard, so it's giving nostalgia more than rules 📚. The header doesn't list anything it obsoletes or updates, so it's just vibing on its own 🦋.

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Status of This Memo ✨

This memo gives info to the Internet community 💜. It does not specify an Internet standard, so nobody's out here building anything from it 🙈. Distribution of this memo is unlimited 🌈.

Discussion 💅

It's basically a poem, and it is SO iconic 😭. Here's my take on each verse:

when Shannon was a river 🌊 and Turing was a car 🚗 when Banyan was a tree 🌳 and buses travelled far 🚌✨

dBase was where you ran to 🏃‍♀️ after you hit the ball ⚾ we were so ANSI, and RISC? nah, not at all 💀

Windows were for looking out of 🪟 in a Tandem, two could take a spin 🎡 Bridges were for crossing 🌉 a frame was to keep pictures in 🖼️

A semi-conductor was a maestro 🎼 not in the big time yet A port you sought in a storm ⛵ fishermen used a net 🎣

Woody Guthrie sang of "My LAN" 🎶 WAN was a despairing mood 😩 LATAs were for high places 🏔️ menus featured food 🍕

If a cursor used four letter words 🙈 a sensor cut them out ✂️ The sight of a mouse in an office 🐭 was sure to raise a shout 📣

Haloid perfected photocopying 📠 and thereby made a hoard Then came Japanese competition 🇯🇵 and its "ox" was gored 🐂

Frequency was measured in cycles 🔁 Hertz referred to multiple pain 🤕 Modem was a harvesting command 🌾 for bringing in the grain

Modelling was at fashion shows 👗 bauds were ladies of the night 🌙 Prompting was helping actors 🎭 contesting for resources, a fight ⚔️

Walking and chewing gum concurrently 🫧 requires considerable skill We called it multi-tasking 🤹 and by gosh we always will 💖

We had no electronic calculators 🧮 just slide rules by Keuffel & Esser I am still a true believer 🫶 Keufel & Esser war besser

Chips were used for gambling 🎰 von Neuman was a pup 🐶 Monte Carlo a place to visit 🎲 squaring the circle ... well, we gave up 🙃

A Sprint was less than 880 🏃 a relay was a team 🏅 Greene was just a color 💚 breaking up AT&T a dream 💭

Coherent was applied to speech 🗣️ not a spectral line excited ✨ Multi-media meant prose and song 🎵 and Noel Coward was knighted 👑

Cerf was found at the beach 🏖️ a Rose was a Rose was a Rose 🌹 Jobs were to look for 🍎 and Gates were to close 🚪

"2B" was an elementary school class 🏫 and "D" a failing grade 📉 A router was a tool 🔧 a server was a maid 🧹

Lotus was a flower 🌸 adobe was a brick 🧱 Postscript was an afterthought 💭 joy a popsicle stick 🍭

We called a plotter a CAD 📐 a token ring a sham 💍 A buffer was for buffing 💅 a male goat was a ram 🐏

The best noise supressor was ... ssh 🤫 we knew little of egos and ids 🪞 For archival storage and encryption 🔐 we looked to the pyramids 🔺

Now in accordance with Greenfield's Law ⚖️ in voice both loud and clear 📢 Here's to exponential growth in memory 📈 & operating speed next year. 🚀

--srg 💜

Security Considerations 🔒

Security issues are not discussed in this memo. 😭 Not even a little bit, so don't go looking for them here.

Author's Address 💌

Stanley R. Greenfield Ziff-Davis One Park Avenue New York, NY 10016

EMail: 0004689513@mcimail.com 📧