Computer History Museum has made the scans of RFCs 1 through 9 available

While the RFC Editor site has scans of many early RFCs, they do not host scans of numbers 1 through 7, and this is the first I’m aware of these being made available online for public viewing. Check out the art in RFC-2:

This is almost faithfully reproduced in the ASCII transcription from the 90s, but the original version is blockier and it’s also got pen drawings overlaid on top to make the lines seem more like lines. The hand written version of RFC-8 matches the version hosted on RFC Editor, with one important addition: there is also a full transcription provided by ARC! I’m a Mozilla Fellow and I do a lot of work on the decentralized web with both ActivityPub and the Dat Project.

Source: write.as