| 768 | User Datagram ProtocolJ. Postel | Internet Standard | August 1980 |
| 793 | Transmission Control ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 9293 | Internet Standard | September 1981 |
| 821 | Simple Mail Transfer ProtocolJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 2821 | Internet Standard | August 1982 |
| 954 | NICNAME/WHOISK. Harrenstien, M.K. Stahl, E.J. Feinler · obsoleted by RFC 3912 | Draft Standard | October 1985 |
| 959 | File Transfer ProtocolJ. Postel, J. Reynolds | Internet Standard | October 1985 |
| 974 | Mail routing and the domain systemC. Partridge · obsoleted by RFC 2821 | Historic | January 1986 |
| 977 | Network News Transfer ProtocolB. Kantor, P. Lapsley · obsoleted by RFC 3977 | Proposed Standard | February 1986 |
| 1034 | Domain names - concepts and facilitiesP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1035 | Domain names - implementation and specificationP. Mockapetris | Internet Standard | November 1987 |
| 1123 | Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and SupportR. Braden, Ed. | Internet Standard | October 1989 |
| 1288 | The Finger User Information ProtocolD. Zimmerman | Draft Standard | December 1991 |
| 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 |
| 1590 | Media Type Registration ProcedureJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047, RFC 2048, RFC 2049 | Informational | March 1994 |
| 1625 | WAIS over Z39.50-1988M. St. Pierre, J. Fullton, K. Gamiel, J. Goldman, B. Kahle, J. Kunze, H. Morris, F. Schiettecatte | Informational | June 1994 |
| 1700 | Assigned NumbersJ. Reynolds, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 3232 | Historic | October 1994 |
| 1714 | Referral Whois Protocol (RWhois)S. Williamson, M. Kosters · obsoleted by RFC 2167 | Informational | November 1994 |
| 1777 | Lightweight Directory Access ProtocolW. Yeong, T. Howes, S. Kille · obsoleted by RFC 3494 | Historic | March 1995 |
| 1912 | Common DNS Operational and Configuration ErrorsD. Barr | Informational | February 1996 |
| 1939 | Post Office Protocol - Version 3J. Myers, M. Rose | Internet Standard | May 1996 |
| 1945 | Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk | Informational | May 1996 |
| 2052 | A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)A. Gulbrandsen, P. Vixie · obsoleted by RFC 2782 | Experimental | October 1996 |
| 2065 | Domain Name System Security ExtensionsD. Eastlake 3rd, C. Kaufman · obsoleted by RFC 2535 | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |