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!
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.