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!

  • @blazarious@mylem.me
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    431 year ago

    How do you feel about people joking about and using 404 far off from HTTP?

    Also: yay, AMAs have finally arrived. Who’s gonna verify your identity, though?

    • Two9AOP
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      781 year ago

      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
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        241 year ago

        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.

        • Two9AOP
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          461 year ago

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

      • @Akasazh@feddit.nl
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        1 year ago

        I once made an historical 404 joke saying ‘Athens not found’ as in 404 bc Athens lost the Peloponnesian war against Sparta and was sacked, never to regain the power it once held.

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

        • @MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          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.