Comment on Status code 418 is the "sir this is wendy's" meme for tech people.

Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s an April fool’s joke from… 50 ish years ago. Hypertext teapot control protocol. Status code 418 was supposed to be what happens if you try to get it to brew a cup of coffee. It cannot brew coffee, it is a teapot.

  “This is a Wendy’s” is a response to wildly off-topic remarks, similar in case to 418

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You have your sense of time a bit out of whack.

    Development of HTTP was initiated in 1989.

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    • tiredofsametab@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Which was clearly like 12 or so years ago, right? .... right? crumbles to dust

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    • klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That was 100% me transposing the numbers xD I thought it said 1989 for the joke, it was 1998

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