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[–] 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

    Development of HTTP was initiated in 1989.

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