I'm a Teapot — The Most Pointless HTCPCP Browser Simulator (418 Energy Only)
Submission for the DEV April Fools / HTCPCP Challenge Category I'm aiming for: Best Ode to Larry Masinter (with strong Anti-Value Proposition) What I Built A completely useless, single-file web app...

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Submission for the DEV April Fools / HTCPCP Challenge Category I'm aiming for: Best Ode to Larry Masinter (with strong Anti-Value Proposition) What I Built A completely useless, single-file web app that lets you talk to a virtual teapot using the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) from the legendary RFC 2324 (published April 1, 1998). You can issue real commands like: BREW / POST (coffee) GET coffee POUR PROPFIND metadata TEA (RFC 7168 extension) SHAKE TO STIR (works on mobile with device motion) Every single command returns HTTP/1.1 418 I'm a teapot, complete with sarcastic quotes from the RFC, live request logging, and fun CSS animations (boiling, dancing, pouring imaginary nothing). It solves zero real-world problems. It will never brew coffee. It exists purely to make you laugh, waste 30 seconds of your life, and say “IYKYK”. Why This Exists Because Larry Masinter deserves an ode. On April 1st 1998 he slipped “short and stout” into an official standards document an