I'm the author of an April Fool's Internet Standard, AMA
I'm the author of an April Fool's Internet Standard, AMA
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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What made you think of using drink making appliances specifically? Why didn't you for example use a different one, like a washing machine, a fridge or a microwave or even something else entirely?
I read the original HTCPCP around ten years ago, and it Deeply Offended me (as a Brit) that it didn't handle tea brewing at all. That was the entire motivation, I'm afraid.