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.
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ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks 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.zone 2 weeks ago
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
connecting interpersonally with the humans
You could’ve stopped right there and it would’ve still made sense, which is sad.
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Glad my lore has served you well.
NichtElias@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s serious unseriousness, or in other words German humor
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
German humor is nothing to laugh at.
HerrVorragend@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Anzeige ist raus
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The wurst.
OpenStars@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
German… what now?
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m not laughing.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Does doing up an entire standards document as an april fools joke count as serious or unserious?
It’s impossible to know until you observe them. They’re Shrödinger’s Nerds.
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I get no respect.
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
All you had to do was brew a coffee…
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nerds making joke standards is nothing unique.
See also: IETF RFC 1149 and IPoAC
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
that’s not a man-in-the-middle attack (unless the bird is a trained falcon or something), it’s packet loss due to infrastructure damage
dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Humorous RFCs and protocol proposals are an ancient internet tradition: en.wikipedia.org/…/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_C…
Engineering humour of this sort actually goes back even further – en.wikipedia.org/…/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_C…
Nerdy humour has probably been around as long as there have been engineers.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Learning about computer science and finding all the subtle jokes embedded in the naming conventions is peak. These nerds had humor!