• Kristell
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    211 month 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

      • tiredofsametab
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        71 month ago

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

      • Kristell
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        1 month 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!