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Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by ColinWright »

oolonthegreat wrote: post #20
ColinWright wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I appreciate that you might think that, and thank you, but I was only interested in the 404 page.

now that is only weirder what is the meaning of "3lJQa6w" then ? surely you didn't randomly type that ?

This one was sent to me, but in a similar situation when someone said a 404 page from a particular site was fun, I simply mutated an existing genuine page until I had a URL that 404'd.

Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by ByThyGrace »

ColinWright wrote: post #18
aasasd wrote: post #9

> HTTP Error 4O4 > 404 Unfound > The Web Server cannot give you the answers you need. Please check your life to ensure the path is correct. Did you press the right keys in sequence, and click with a firm but gentle hand? Are you paying attention? This may be a message, but it's not a mistake. > Please contact the server's administrator if chaos persists. > http://www.joseph.ca

Edited ... As the child of this comment points out, I got this wrong. I was multi-tasking, and didn't read carefully enough. If they delete their comment (which is now no longer relevant) then I'll delete this one and leave things tidy. (they probably won't notice ...)

You need to pay attention. GP is quoting a different 404 page than the one linked by OP. :)

Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by pdpi »

The Rolling Stones’ site had the best (and most obvious) 404 page ever — an embedded YouTube video for You Can’t Always Get What You Want. Sadly they’ve since removed it

Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by [deleted] »

ByThyGrace wrote: post #24
ColinWright wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Edited ... As the child of this comment points out, I got this wrong. I was multi-tasking, and didn't read carefully enough. If they delete their comment (which is now no longer relevant) then I'll delete this one and leave things tidy. (they probably won't notice ...)

You need to pay attention. GP is quoting a different 404 page than the one linked by OP. :)

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Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by krallja »

ColinWright wrote: post #19

It appears to be suffering the HN "Hug of Death". Here's the version from the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20211024193418/https://www.ft.co...

The Wayback Machine seems to be suffering, as well:

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Re: The Financial Times’ 404 page

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Post by hvenev »

Thorrez wrote: post #14
Bluestein wrote: post #8

This is the kind of page tha the early internet thrived on. So quaint. Quirky. (Now it is all just becoming a big, walled, advertising network ... sigh.)

Google's is a little quirky: https://google.com/foo "Error 404 (Not Found)!!1" Full disclosure I work at Google.

Other google domains serve different 404 pages on different URLs sometimes, for example:

- https://www.youtube.com/djhjwhfkffs

- https://www.youtube.com/varz

- https://www.youtube.com/abortabortabort

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