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Liveblogger here. This post was best-effort liveblogged while the talk was going on, and this is an error transcribing the talk on my part. I've made a fix to remove this line since it's misleading. Sorry about that!

I'm not sure what the first RPC protocol was, but could it be the SunRPC[0]? I used that at my first job and thought it was pretty magical.

EDIT: duh, search for "rpc" on wikipedia[1]. The first came a few years before SunRPC out of Xerox PARC.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Network_Computing_Remote_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_procedure_call

What's more likely: there is an error in transcribing or the developers of one of the worlds largest websites think the first RPC protocol was written in 2007 (over, say, REST, which their entire API is built on).

Given the continual attitudes seen within tech... sadly, the latter.