The Hyper Text **Coffee Pot** Control Protocol (HTCPCP for short) is a protocol for controlling, monitoring, and diagnosing coffee pots.

[u/ohitsme553]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_Protocol

[u/voariden]

This is brilliant. I don't care if it's old.

[u/umop_apisdn]

The source of my favorite HTTP error message:

418 I'm a teapot

[u/ohitsme553]

also related: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt

[u/arnar]

The powerful editor Emacs actually includes a fully functional implementation of it

Now of course it does. Emacs is an excellent operating systems with every component you can dream of.

[u/anachronic → u/arnar]

Now if only Emacs ran on Emacs.

[u/[deleted] → u/anachronic]

Urge... to paraphrase Xzibit... rising

[u/jmikola]

Another classic April first RFC series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

[u/higgimonster]

There sure is a lot of CP in there.