---------------------------------------- 1436 March 01st, 2018 ---------------------------------------- I've been geeking out hard all day about RFCs. Someone on Mastodon posted about how CSV as a format was never needed and only came into existence because people at IBM and Bell Labs never read RFC20 [0], the definition of ASCII. ASCII has in its character set fields for separating ... fields, and groups and rows. 4 levels of heirarchy, to be exact. With those we never needed to worry about properly quoting stuff in CSV! Mind. Blown. So I tore through it (it's a short RFC) and it was a fascinating window into the past. I felt exactly as I had as a kid when I saw the Declaration of Independence. This was a marker in history, a relic of communication. The old RFCs feel like that to me. I know I felt that way when I read RFC1436: The Internet Gopher Protocol [1]. I guess RFCs are cool things to go read for fun. Huh, who knew? Anyway, to kind-of "celebrate" my nerdy excitement, I'm going to adopt using 1436 as a synonym for Gopher. Now you know what I'm referring to if you ever see that in the future. Maybe I'll link back here the first couple times... yeah. Join me in 1436ing! (TXT) [0] RFC 20 - ASCII format for Network Interchange (TXT) [1] RFC 1436 - The Internet Gopher Protocol