Submitted via IRC for Bytram
The august and serious folk at the IETF have always had a soft spot for their April Fool's jokes, and so do others – so much that a proposal to deprecate a joke has met with successful resistance.
From what feels like the Internet Dark Ages of the 1990s, was the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, a joking anticipation of the Internet of Things, which gave the world HTTP Error 418:
2.3.2 418 I'm a teapot
Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout.
Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/14/error_418_im_a_teapot_preserved/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @08:30AM (1 child)
I still prefer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFC_1149 [wikipedia.org] (ipoac)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 15 2017, @04:56PM
Technically, using a microSD card violates the RFC (it requires that blackstuff be printed on whitestuff).