What are the origins of standard port numbers?

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Published on 2009-10-16T13:35:21Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 2:00 UTC
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Wikipedia has a long list of standard port numbers for various protocols.

Does anyone know how some of these numbers were chosen?

EDIT: I'm asking how/why the original developers chose the numbers, not where the list comes from.

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