| 821 | Simple Mail Transfer ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 2821 | Internet Standard | August 1982 |
| 822 | STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGESD. Crocker · obsoleted by RFC 2822 | Internet Standard | August 1982 |
| 850 | Standard for interchange of USENET messagesM.R. Horton · obsoleted by RFC 1036 | Unknown | June 1983 |
| 959 | File Transfer ProtocolJ. Postel, J. Reynolds | Internet Standard | October 1985 |
| 977 | Network News Transfer ProtocolB. Kantor, P. Lapsley · obsoleted by RFC 3977 | Proposed Standard | February 1986 |
| 1036 | Standard for interchange of USENET messagesM.R. Horton, R. Adams · obsoleted by RFC 5536, RFC 5537 | Unknown | December 1987 |
| 1123 | Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and SupportR. Braden, Ed. | Internet Standard | October 1989 |
| 1305 | Network Time Protocol (Version 3) Specification, Implementation and AnalysisD. Mills · obsoleted by RFC 5905 | Historic | March 1992 |
| 1436 | The Internet Gopher Protocol (a distributed document search and retrieval protocol)F. Anklesaria, M. McCahill, P. Lindner, D. Johnson, D. Torrey, B. Alberti | Informational | March 1993 |
| 1522 | MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Two: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII TextK. Moore · obsoleted by RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047, RFC 2048, RFC 2049 | Draft Standard | September 1993 |
| 1630 | Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW: A Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and Addresses of Objects on the Network as used in the World-Wide WebT. Berners-Lee | Informational | June 1994 |
| 1700 | Assigned NumbersJ. Reynolds, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 3232 | Historic | October 1994 |
| 1737 | Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource NamesK. Sollins, L. Masinter | Informational | December 1994 |
| 1738 | Uniform Resource Locators (URL)T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, M. McCahill · obsoleted by RFC 4248, RFC 4266 | Proposed Standard | December 1994 |
| 1766 | Tags for the Identification of LanguagesH. Alvestrand · obsoleted by RFC 3066, RFC 3282 | Proposed Standard | March 1995 |
| 1808 | Relative Uniform Resource LocatorsR. Fielding · obsoleted by RFC 3986 | Proposed Standard | June 1995 |
| 1864 | The Content-MD5 Header FieldJ. Myers, M. Rose | Draft Standard | October 1995 |
| 1866 | Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0T. Berners-Lee, D. Connolly · obsoleted by RFC 2854 | Historic | November 1995 |
| 1867 | Form-based File Upload in HTMLE. Nebel, L. Masinter · obsoleted by RFC 2854 | Historic | November 1995 |
| 1900 | Renumbering Needs WorkB. Carpenter, Y. Rekhter | Informational | February 1996 |
| 1945 | Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk | Informational | May 1996 |
| 1950 | ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3P. Deutsch, J-L. Gailly | Informational | May 1996 |
| 1951 | DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3P. Deutsch | Informational | May 1996 |
| 1952 | GZIP file format specification version 4.3P. Deutsch | Informational | May 1996 |
| 2045 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message BodiesN. Freed, N. Borenstein | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2047 | MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII TextK. Moore | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2048 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration ProceduresN. Freed, J. Klensin, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 4288, RFC 4289 | Best Current Practice | November 1996 |
| 2069 | An Extension to HTTP : Digest Access AuthenticationJ. Franks, P. Hallam-Baker, J. Hostetler, P. Leach, A. Luotonen, E. Sink, L. Stewart · obsoleted by RFC 2617 | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |