• Ada@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    There was even an entire standards document drawn up (as a practical joke), called the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP 1.0). To this day though, there the server status response 418 - I’m a teapot still exists. It was defined as part of HTCPCP as the error code returned when you tried to get a teapot to brew coffee :)

    Web nerds took their coffee seriously! Or maybe they didn’t? Does doing up an entire standards document as an april fools joke count as serious or unserious?

    • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Geeking out over the origins of HTTP 418 kinda got me a job once. But that was back when that kind of stuff, connecting interpersonally with the humans that you work with, mattered during hiring.

      • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        2 months ago

        connecting interpersonally with the humans

        You could’ve stopped right there and it would’ve still made sense, which is sad.

  • idunnololz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I have a camera aimed at my stove so I can check if I accidentally left the stove on. It never happens but it does give me peace of mind whenever I leave the hoose and get paranoid.