Google secretly serves an 'I'm a teapot' error and it's a real HTTP code

Visit and you'll get status 418, an actual internet standard from an April Fools' joke in 1998 that never left. The web is held together with bits like…

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A 27-year-old April Fools joke that got standardized into the HTTP spec and just quietly stayed there.

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