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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think this is the dot com bubble 2.0

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What would be a current version of this April Fool - what technology would you create a standard for, what beverage would you interface it to?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So what's better, tea or coffee?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SYN

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RST

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do I know the government isn't spying on me, cuz they could totally go and compromise all root certificates, thus RIP https.

Oh, and pardon, who the heck does still use http without the s?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Well, they could. They could also set up listening posts on every transcontinental pipe as they reach land.

What's that, they did?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am interested in writing a real RFC, what kind of mailing list etc should I join in order to make my RFC real?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What are some of your favorite accounts to follow on mastodon?

Also, will your talk be recorded?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just found out about this on Brodie Robertson’s yt channel! I am not a teapot btw!!

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