Editor of HTML5 says jab at Twitter just a joke

What a bummer that this is getting treated even mildly seriously. One of the real delights of working in this field is the easter eggs in RFCs and in tech specifications. What great about this little bit of fun text on Twitter is that it's funny now and will still make sense as an example even if Twitter isn't around.

Easter eggs rule and add spice to sometime dry tasks, so, years ago when I worked at National Semiconductor, I encouraged the team to add easter eggs to our work product. A fellow engineer got "This device will provide more wattage for your cottage" into a footnote in a datasheet for very popular part. I took to adding haikus onto the undersides of my demo boards (which later got us into trouble with Panasonic, but oh well...).

Awesome RFCs or tech easter eggs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit

http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2010/03/helping-you-...

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3675 - really serious, really funny

Lots more: http://www.openrfc.org/humour.pl

EDIT: ohmigosh, I'd forgotten how awesome some of those RFCs are... Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol [HTCPCP]...

This is the first time I've ever seen someone inject humor into technical writing. /s