The thing that's blowing my mind here is that this standard was adopted as ISO 3. It reminds me of the Simpsons joke that Mr. Burns' social security number is 000-00-0002.
I think a lot of people are surprised to learn just how old the field of electronics is. It's an easy mistake to make with the relative novelty of digital electronics, but the science has been around for a good long time
It's less about the field of electronics being old and more about being surprised that ISO apparently just started counting with number 1 and that the preferred numbers would be so early relative to other things you might want to standardize.
At my local hackerspace we got a donation of a _huge_ 3D printer (~1m³ IIRC), after a while we realized that the number "3" printed on it is actually the serial number
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