You might be familiar with RFCs, aka Request for Comments, they're the documentation used as the basis for practically all 'official' internet standards, and to some they can read a little dry.
However, there are a few... amusing ones. RFC2324: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2324.txt , the "Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)"
There is coffee all over the world. Increasingly, in a world in which
computing is ubiquitous, the computists want to make coffee. Coffee
brewing is an art, but the distributed intelligence of the web-
connected world transcends art. Thus, there is a strong, dark, rich
requirement for a protocol designed espressoly for the brewing of
coffee. Coffee is brewed using coffee pots. Networked coffee pots
require a control protocol if they are to be controlled.
Increasingly, home and consumer devices are being connected to the
Internet. Early networking experiments demonstrated vending devices
connected to the Internet for status monitoring [COKE]. One of the
first remotely _operated_ machine to be hooked up to the Internet,
the Internet Toaster, (controlled via SNMP) was debuted in 1990
[RFC2235].
The demand for ubiquitous appliance connectivity that is causing the
consumption of the IPv4 address space. Consumers want remote control
of devices such as coffee pots so that they may wake up to freshly
brewed coffee, or cause coffee to be prepared at a precise time after
the completion of dinner preparations.
Of course, I wondered if this was actually used anywhere... thanks Google: https://www.google.com/teapot
