[SIGCIS-Members] Help on Coffee and Computing

[James E. Dobson]

Hi,

What about the silly RFC 2324: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)?
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324

and the CMU Coke machine along with the finger interfaces, etc?
https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~bsy/coke.history.txt

Jed


From: Members <members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of James Cortada <jcortada at umn.edu>
Date: Monday, July 20, 2020 at 3:42 PM
To: "members at sigcis.org" <members at sigcis.org>
Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Help on Coffee and Computing


The IT community of users, programmers, vendors, etc have for decades had a reputation for being extensive consumers of coffee. In some parts of the IT ecosystem, especially among those who work odd hours, such as programmers, computer operators, and vendor field engineers.  I am studying the corporate ephemera of this industry and its cultural attachments, such as coffee cups and what they tell us about computing.  Do any of you have any information, ephemera, or sources and citations on this specific issue of coffee and computing?  I can get many industry folks, such as IBM retirees, to wax eloquently on the subject in their private FB accounts, but that is not enough.  Corporate culture is tough to study.  Thanks in advance for your help.  Jim
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James W. Cortada
Senior Research Fellow
Charles Babbage Institute
University of Minnesota
jcortada at umn.edu<mailto:jcortada at umn.edu>
608-274-6382
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