ii---------------------------------------- null.host 1 ii1436 null.host 1 iiMarch 01st, 2018 null.host 1 ii---------------------------------------- null.host 1 ii null.host 1 iiI've been geeking out hard all day about RFCs. Someone on Mastodon null.host 1 iiposted about how CSV as a format was never needed and only came null.host 1 iiinto existence because people at IBM and Bell Labs never read null.host 1 iiRFC20 [0], the definition of ASCII. ASCII has in its character set null.host 1 iifields for separating ... fields, and groups and rows. 4 levels of null.host 1 iiheirarchy, to be exact. With those we never needed to worry about null.host 1 iiproperly quoting stuff in CSV! null.host 1 ii null.host 1 iiMind. Blown. null.host 1 ii null.host 1 iiSo I tore through it (it's a short RFC) and it was a fascinating null.host 1 iiwindow into the past. I felt exactly as I had as a kid when I saw null.host 1 iithe Declaration of Independence. This was a marker in history, null.host 1 iia relic of communication. The old RFCs feel like that to me. null.host 1 ii null.host 1 iiI know I felt that way when I read RFC1436: The Internet Gopher null.host 1 iiProtocol [1]. I guess RFCs are cool things to go read for fun. null.host 1 iiHuh, who knew? null.host 1 ii null.host 1 iiAnyway, to kind-of "celebrate" my nerdy excitement, I'm going to null.host 1 iiadopt using 1436 as a synonym for Gopher. Now you know what I'm null.host 1 iireferring to if you ever see that in the future. Maybe I'll link null.host 1 iiback here the first couple times... yeah. null.host 1 ii null.host 1 iiJoin me in 1436ing! null.host 1 ii null.host 1 i null.host 1 0[0] RFC 20 - ASCII format for Network Interchange /users/tomasino/archive/rfc/20.txt sdf.org 70 0[1] RFC 1436 - The Internet Gopher Protocol /users/tomasino/archive/rfc/1436.txt sdf.org 70 .