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I'm the author of an April Fool's Internet Standard, AMA (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Two9A@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Let's get the AMAs kicked off on Lemmy, shall we.

Almost ten years ago now, I wrote RFC 7168, "Hypertext Coffeepot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances" which extends HTCPCP to handle tea brewing. Both Coffeepot Control Protocol and the tea-brewing extension are joke Internet Standards, and were released on Apr 1st (1998 and 2014). You may be familiar with HTTP error 418, "I'm a teapot"; this comes from the 1998 standard.

I'm giving a talk on the history of HTTP and HTCPCP at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin later this month, and I need an FAQ section; AMA about the Internet and HTTP. Let's try this out!

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[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The fact that otherwise non-technical people joke about staying in hotel room 404 just shows how pervasive the modern Internet has become. As an aside, it also shows the importance of a good error message; there are some errors (like "Not Found") in HTTP that are simple and clear, and some ("Bad Gateway"?) that are more impenetrable.

No-one jokes about staying in room 504, and the room service never arriving.

(And perhaps one of the larger Lemmies can get a hold of Victoria, get these AMAs going for real.)

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's discontinued as a code, but perhaps we could get people using 102: Processing as a response online when someone says something unexpected or stupid-sounding.

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

HTTP/1.1 102 Processing
Content-Type: application/wtf

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I once made an historical 404 joke saying 'Athens not found' as in 404 bc Athens lost the Peloponnesian war against Sparta.

I don't think many of my fellow students got the http error level of the joke, though.

[–] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's sounds like a joke that is always followed by a long and contrived explanation followed by an awkward silence. The best kind of joke.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Twas, yes. Was pleasing to me, at least.

[–] blazarious@mylem.me 8 points 1 year ago

I like this answer. Thanks!