7 April is the traditional birthday of the internet. On 7 April 1969, RFC 1 was published. The first RFCs, or Requests For Comments, were records of unofficial notes. They are now official records, the internet being as prone to the Janus of transparency and bureaucracy as the rest of us.
For teachers who have in the decades from 1969 struggled with students’ cell and mobile phones, 7 April is the feast day of St John Baptiste de La Salle, patron of school principals.
