• Kristell
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    2010 hours ago

    It’s an April fool’s joke from… 50 ish years ago. Hypertext teapot control protocol. Status code 418 was supposed to be what happens if you try to get it to brew a cup of coffee. It cannot brew coffee, it is a teapot.

    “This is a Wendy’s” is a response to wildly off-topic remarks, similar in case to 418

    • [object Object]
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      1110 hours ago

      You have your sense of time a bit out of whack.

      Development of HTTP was initiated in 1989.

      • tiredofsametab
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        610 hours ago

        Which was clearly like 12 or so years ago, right? … right? crumbles to dust

      • Kristell
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        9 hours ago

        That was 100% me transposing the numbers xD I thought it said 1989 for the joke, it was 1998. Also I did the math wrong and said 50 instead of 40, two fuck-ups for the price of one!