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I'm the author of an April Fool's Internet Standard, AMA
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What would be a current version of this April Fool - what technology would you create a standard for, what beverage would you interface it to?
The motivation for HTCPCP-TEA was that HTCPCP didn't cover tea brewing. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any infused hot drinks that aren't coffee or a tea of some kind...
Perhaps we need a homebrew beer request standard. The response lag would be tremendous though.
cocoa?
As it turns out, the standard almost caters for this directly:
If cocoa and other loose powders count as a variety of tea leaf...
Ah yes, you're a true programmer. That'll become one of those decisions ossified into place 30 years from now that we need to work around, but it works because it's good enough.