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.

Why we kept this

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

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

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