Here modern is not description of the RFC iteself, modern web = today's web https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=modern https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=mod

Here modern is not description of the RFC iteself, modern web = today's web https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=modern https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=modern > In history, in the broadest sense, opposed to ancient and medieval, but often in more limited use. In Shakespeare, often with a sense of "every-day, ordinary, commonplace." Meaning "not antiquated or obsolete, in harmony with present ways" is by 1808.