| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1590 | Media Type Registration ProcedureJ. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047, RFC 2048, RFC 2049 | Informational | March 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 |
| 1806 | Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition HeaderR. Troost, S. Dorner · obsoleted by RFC 2183 | Experimental | June 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 |
| 2026 | The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3S. Bradner | Best Current Practice | October 1996 |
| 2045 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message BodiesN. Freed, N. Borenstein | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2046 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media TypesN. 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 |
| 2049 | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and ExamplesN. Freed, N. Borenstein | Draft Standard | November 1996 |
| 2068 | Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, T. Berners-Lee · obsoleted by RFC 2616 | Proposed Standard | January 1997 |
| 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 |
| 2076 | Common Internet Message HeadersJ. Palme | Informational | February 1997 |
| 2110 | MIME E-mail Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML)J. Palme, A. Hopmann · obsoleted by RFC 2557 | Proposed Standard | March 1997 |
| 2119 | Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner | Best Current Practice | March 1997 |
| 2145 | Use and Interpretation of HTTP Version NumbersJ. C. Mogul, R. Fielding, J. Gettys, H. Frystyk · obsoleted by RFC 7230 | Informational | May 1997 |
| 2183 | Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header FieldR. Troost, S. Dorner, K. Moore, Ed. | Proposed Standard | August 1997 |
| 2277 | IETF Policy on Character Sets and LanguagesH. Alvestrand | Best Current Practice | January 1998 |
| 2279 | UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646F. Yergeau · obsoleted by RFC 3629 | Draft Standard | January 1998 |
| 2324 | Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)L. Masinter | Informational | 1 April 1998 |
| 2396 | Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic SyntaxT. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter · obsoleted by RFC 3986 | Draft Standard | August 1998 |