[nostrademons]

This is Google participating in a joke that made its way around the Internet a few years ago:

http://humanstxt.org/

The joke is itself a play on the "robots.txt" protocol that sites use to indicate whether they may be crawled by search engines.

[shliachtx]

See: http://www.github.com/humans.txt

[jsdalton]

I'm not sure why you're referring to it as a "joke." Humans.txt is definitely an earnest effort to standardize a means of giving the people behind building and maintaining a website credit for their work.

[mmahemoff]

HumansTXT is not just a joke though. It's like movie credits for programmers.

Google was quick to add it, though I'd hoped they would have enhanced it a bit by now. At least it hasn't washed away.

Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2522220