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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It'd be fantastic to get some drink brewing hardware together that actually supports this standard, that'd be the real icing on the cake. Are you aware of any people putting something together?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As it turns out, no: HTCPCP isn't a complete definition, so it never resulted in physical hardware. Except, of course, for the various teapots with chips inside that respond "418" but don't actually do any brewing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Did people take it seriously? Unlike avian carrier, there is people connecting tea/coffee machine to the internet

Did people try to implement it for the sake of the joke (again, here I am thinking about the avian carrier)

[โ€“] ThaNook 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what if, at some point, the standards and protocols you helped developed are applied?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Being realistic, it's not something I see gaining adoption, mostly because HTCPCP is a joke protocol and isn't a complete spec. Any internet-connected coffee machine nowadays would probably go through a ZigBee proxy or similar, and talk some proprietary format.

[โ€“] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What kind of coffee do you drink?

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