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HTTP STATUS CODE LORE
The Man Who Trolled the Internet. And Won.
Larry Masinter
Engineer. Researcher. The man who hid a joke inside internet law and watched the world argue about it for 27 years.
🗓️ 1 April 1998. Larry wrote a fake-but-real-looking internet document — the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol — for controlling coffee pots over the internet. Was it necessary? Absolutely not.
☕ Inside it, he buried one line: if you ask a teapot to brew coffee, it must reply with 418 — I'm a teapot. The entity body MAY be short and stout.
"Status codes are like a waiter's reply — 200 means yes, 404 means not found. 418 means: I am a teapot. I cannot help you."
😱 2017: Someone tried to delete it from Node.js and Go. The internet revolted. save418.com launched. Thousands protested on GitHub. 418 survived — permanently reserved. Forever.
🏆 A twenty-minute April Fools' joke is now untouchable internet law. Larry didn't change the world — he made it more absurd. Which is better.
☕ OFFICIAL KETTLY JOKE
A developer orders coffee.
Barista: "418. I'm a teapot."
Developer nods, files a bug report.
The barista was Larry. The bug was never closed.
RFC 2324 · RFC 7168 · IETF 2017 · save418.com