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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?

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dparticiple@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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- wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Learning about computer science and finding all the subtle jokes embedded in the naming conventions is peak. These nerds had humor!
  
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neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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- Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  connecting interpersonally with the humans
  
  You could’ve stopped right there and it would’ve still made sense, which is sad.
  
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- 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Glad my lore has served you well.
  
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418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I get no respect.

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- ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  All you had to do was brew a coffee…
  
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Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Nerds making joke standards is nothing unique.

See also: IETF RFC 1149 and IPoAC

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- thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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  - Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Another example of such an attack
    
    CW: animals being eaten
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NichtElias@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That’s serious unseriousness, or in other words German humor

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- 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m not laughing.
  
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- Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  German humor is nothing to laugh at.
  
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  - HerrVorragend@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Anzeige ist raus
    
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  - Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The wurst.
    
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- OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  German… what now?
  
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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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