Coffee ☕

Comments

• ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

  source

  • dparticiple@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

    source
  • NichtElias@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s serious unseriousness, or in other words German humor

    source

    • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      German… what now?

      source
    • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      German humor is nothing to laugh at.

      source
• Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  At first I thought why not use a float level, then I thought oh right that’ll be disgusting to have floating in the shared coffee.

  source
• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  This was before movable coffee pots became common.

  source
• sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So it wasn’t porn?

  source

  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Guys working with computers in this era didn’t know any girls.

    source

    • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      worth noting, e-mail however was… If I recall ascii porn was among the first things sent.

      source
• luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

  source

  • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1991-2001… Holy shit, this coffee pot has a longer lifespan than most Google products!

    source
• SurfinBird@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Java?

  source
• Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hot coffee in your area!

  source
• facow@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  See also HTCPCP and HTTP 418 I’m a teapot

  source