When PARRY Met DOCTOR Again: Recreating RFC 439 with Local LLMs

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In January 1973, Vint Cerf published what may be the most charming document in the history of the internet. RFC 439, titled “PARRY Encounters the DOCTOR,” is a transcript of a conversation that took place on September 18, 1972, between two computer programs connected over ARPANET - one running at Stanford, one at BBN in Cambridge. It opens like this:

Good Evening. Tell me your problems.

*People get on my nerves sometimes.

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When PARRY Met DOCTOR Again: Recreating RFC 439 with Local LLMs