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I'm the author of an April Fool's Internet Standard, AMA (lemmy.world)

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Let's get the AMAs kicked off on Lemmy, shall we.

Almost ten years ago now, I wrote RFC 7168, "Hypertext Coffeepot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances" which extends HTCPCP to handle tea brewing. Both Coffeepot Control Protocol and the tea-brewing extension are joke Internet Standards, and were released on Apr 1st (1998 and 2014). You may be familiar with HTTP error 418, "I'm a teapot"; this comes from the 1998 standard.

I'm giving a talk on the history of HTTP and HTCPCP at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin later this month, and I need an FAQ section; AMA about the Internet and HTTP. Let's try this out!

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[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

I just found out about this on Brodie Robertson’s yt channel! I am not a teapot btw!!

[-] Two9A@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Glad to hear it, you should walk around with a HTTP 418 hat so more people know you're not a teapot.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

But then people would think they are a teapot

[-] ndr@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Haha, same here! I was so proud I knew what the title was referring to before reading the post. Lol

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