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Typo in Google's 404

#1

Post by heroic » Thu, Jul 12, 2012, 9:21 PM UTC

Typo in Google's 404
google.com

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#2

Post by heroic » Thu, Jul 12, 2012, 9:22 PM UTC

The 1 instead of ! in the title

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#3

Post by Kenan » Thu, Jul 12, 2012, 9:27 PM UTC

heroic wrote: post #2

The 1 instead of ! in the title

That's on purpose. It's common on the internet to interchange 1's and !'s to show how urgent the sentence is.

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#4

Post by samsoffes » Thu, Jul 12, 2012, 9:30 PM UTC

This is news. sigh

Re: Typo in Google's 404

#5

Post by daveid » Thu, Jul 12, 2012, 9:32 PM UTC

heroic wrote: post #2

The 1 instead of ! in the title

By deliberately replacing a ! with a 1 you can exaggerate the excitement. You are so excited you can't even hold the shift button down. It's not a typo, more of an inside joke of the Internet. :)

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#6

Post by l4u » Fri, Jul 13, 2012, 12:32 AM UTC

It was there for quite a long time

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