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Re:How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the Uni... by civilitty on Friday June 09, 2023 @08:41PM (#36266324)
Further immortalized through the 418 I'm a Teapot HTTP error code: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418
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Re:How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the Uni... by monocasa on Friday June 09, 2023 @09:38PM (#36266683)
AFAIK, the 418 status is more a reference to coffee making than to the Utah Teapot.
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Re:How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the Uni... by eesmith on Saturday June 10, 2023 @01:42AM (#36267941)
Yes. It's an error code for the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (RFC 2324)[1] and the author[2] has no Utah nor particular graphics background.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2324 , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Masinter

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