Reported in the New York Times: <https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/05/world/iran-war-trump-news

I’m going to be the buzzkill here, and say that I couldn’t find the demonologist reference (although I did find it amusing). Here’s the source article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00700-y

Humorous RFCs and protocol proposals are an ancient internet tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_Comments

Engineering humour of this sort actually goes back even further – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_encabulator

Nerdy humour has probably been around as long as there have been engineers.