Niche facts that Google can’t find

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

Google works so well that I’m shocked when it doesn’t work. I recall reading an early RFC, from the early 1970s, when someone proposed allowing variable length bytes. I tried searching Google for this. No luck. Google only shows me the famous RFCs, not the failed experiments.

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    https://www.google.com/search?q=rfc+variable+packet+length+request+for+comment&oq=rfc+variable+packet+length+request+for+comment&gs_l=psy-ab.3...11940.13794.0.14080.9.9.0.0.0.0.129.733.0j6.6.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..3.0.0._hLLsQhnqm8
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