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Why wasn't this page found?
- robbyoconnor 7y agoThis is absolutely amazing
- fpalmans 7y agoI actually followed the link and was entertained. +1 would read again.
- magicalhippo 7y agoI chuckled the first time I saw Texas Instruments' 404 page. http://www.ti.com/product/XYZLMZM23601 http://www.ti.com/product/XYZLMZM23601 edit: noticed Analog also has a cute one https://www.analog.com/en/products/xyzad5423.html https://www.analog.com/en/products/xyzad5423.html
- justhw 7y agoNeat! There have been some entertaining 404 pages that came up on HN in the past. 1. Bernie Sanders https://berniesanders.com/sdfw https://berniesanders.com/sdfw 2. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=404&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=404&sort=byPopularity&prefix&p...
- robbyoconnor 7y agoI love this so much
- djsumdog 7y agoI remember a 404 page that was a Brickles game you could play. It was in flash, so if it is still around somewhere, and was never ported to Javascript, it's not easily viewable.
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- riboflavin 7y agoTry clicking on the narwhal... https://www.dremio.com/xyz https://www.dremio.com/xyz
- magicalhippo 7y agoThis got me thinking. Instead of a fixed 404 page, using something like what the Post-modernism Generator[1] uses[2] to generate a web-page, kinda best-effort style. Could be fun :) [1]: http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/ http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/ [2]: http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/ http://dev.null.org/dadaengine/
- HNLurker2 7y agoPost modernism generator reminds me of a 9 year old trying to impress me with big words but all in all clever but schizo jumping from topic to topic. Postmodern philosophy should explain simply and most of them do: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCSkzHxIcfoEr69MWBdo0ppg https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCSkzHxIcfoEr69MWBdo0ppg
- crispinb 7y ago> Postmodern philosophy should explain simply It's not always possible when precisely what is being attempted is to sketch ideas inexpressible with simple denotational language and concepts. What late Heidegger & much of Derrida write is outside the limits of 'commonsense'. Of course one can contest whether the whole enterprise is meaningful at all, or whether their specific attempts succeed, but 'explaining simply' just isn't relevant to what they are trying to do. It's like claiming you're asking a poet to be more prosaic, which amounts to asking them not to write poetry at all.
- 0wis 7y agoGood laugh and a good summary of FT branding ! Any other ideas to create fun easter eggs ? First lazy search for a good starter : https://www.bryanbraun.com/2018/04/01/several-ways-to-hide-easter-eggs-on-your-website/ https://www.bryanbraun.com/2018/04/01/several-ways-to-hide-e...
- pmiller2 7y agoI guess I'm easily entertained, but I always liked Amazon's "dogs of Amazon" 404 pages: https://www.amazon.com/404 https://www.amazon.com/404
- HNLurker2 7y agoOf all the 36 dogs. Soju is in an ad: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Animal-Plush-Squeaky-Christmas-Easter/dp/B07CK3X4TQ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Animal-Plush-Squeaky-Christmas-East...
- blowski 7y agoThat’s brilliant - Funny without being unusable. But I wouldn’t want to be the person monitoring their 404 errors right now.
- zaphar 7y agoHopefully they're m monitoring system knows the difference between direct 404 access and legitimately not found pages.
- jakear 7y agoThe URL provided is just a page UUID with some parts deleted, not "404.html" or whatever. So it really is a "legitimately not found page", but would be hopefully be flagged as "spike in 404 errors due to dead link [...] on news.ycombinator.com" by a reasonable CMS.
- gpvos 7y agoOn the early web, mit.edu had this: I ate your web page. Forgive me, it was juicy and tart on my tongue.
- dgzl 7y agoI guess that counts as a haiku, no? Very cool.
- boffinism 7y agoIt's also an homage to a very short but non-haiku poem by William Carlos Williams: http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/william_carlos_williams/poems/16997 http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/william_carlos_williams...
- JetSpiegel 7y agoThat was not featured on Paterson.
- DHowett 7y agoThis reminds me of the web browser that shipped with BeOS (1995-2001), NetPositive. It would replace 404-status responses and network errors with haikus. There's an archive of those haikus at https://8325.org/haiku/ https://8325.org/haiku/! Yesterday it worked Today it is not working The web is like that.
- Doctor_Fegg 7y agoThe Liberal Democrats (Britain’s centrist, pro-European party) have a nice line in 404s: https://www.libdems.org.uk/aaaa https://www.libdems.org.uk/aaaa I recycled an ancient found image for my own site (OpenStreetMap-powered bike directions on quiet roads/trails): https://cycle.travel/aaaa https://cycle.travel/aaaa
- lifeisstillgood 7y agoFor those not in the UK, the older man on the LibDem site is Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Labour, the official opposition party. The breast slapping was an awkward missed high five during the last general election where Labour unexpectedly won far more seats than predicted. He is not seen as a "handsy" politician - this incident is far more "awks" than "yuks" The 404 joke is that Labour has for several years being trying to avoid having a clear official policy opposing or supporting Brexit
- GordonS 7y agoThe even bigger joke is that when asked, Labour always say "look, we've been very clear on Brexit"
- benj111 7y agoWhat are you talking about? All the parties have been crystal clear on Brexit. "Brexit means Brexit", what's unclear about that?
- microcolonel 7y agoWe've been clear as clarity itself, that Brexit means Brexit, and that's okay because it is acceptable. Understand? Good.
- ratsmack 7y agoIf it's so crystal clear to everyone, why hasn't it happened yet?
- gnicholas 7y agoI had to open a second browser to see what was so funny — in Brave, it just gives a normal-looking 404 error.
- ComputerGuru 7y agoYou have the option to intercept web page errors on (perhaps by default). Microsoft was famous for doing that in IE.
- jormungand 7y agoOne of my favourites: https://gymbox.com/404 https://gymbox.com/404
- jimnotgym 7y agoDid HN just hug a 404 page to death? That is pretty surreal!
- ce4 7y agoDoesnt surprise me to be honest. I've seen this in the past where a backend google search appliance search was triggered for 404 with the query being parts of the 404 url. That overwhelmed the search appliance and led to thread exhaustion on the component in front (ridiculous search timeout)... in the end the whole site went down.
- gberger 7y agoI've read the second sentence 5 times, but I can't understand it. Could you rephrase it please?
- tedunangst 7y agoFront end hit to /article/page-not-here triggers a search in the back end, /search?q=page+not+here.
- ce4 7y agoSorry for that. That was a classic tomcat + reverse proxy setup with a fixed number of tc threads. All were being starved by waiting for the search appliance backend calls to return (60s timeout).
- jcims 7y agoGo to ft.com, accept the declaration of cookies, try again.
- medmunds 7y agoEven more so, the page offers a theory to explain that: > Speculative bubble > The page never actually existed and was fundamentally impossible, but everyone bought into it in a frenzy and it's all now ending in tears.
- smitty1e 7y agoTrumponomics: -- We will make this page Great again with excellent Negotiations
- ogeiczvm 7y agoSometimes governments have a sense of humour: https://www.govt.nz/404 https://www.govt.nz/404
- Keloo 7y agolol, New Zealand is missing from the map.
- rgoulter 7y agoAlso, current Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern featured in a tourist ad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HynsTvRVLiI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HynsTvRVLiI (Though AFAIK it was reddit which popularised the joke first)
- wyldfire 7y agoApparently it's relatively common: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/
- fencepost 7y agoThe page was revised in April, so it may be a reference to Ikea leaving the country off of a map: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/ikea-reportedly-apologizes-for-leaving-new-zealand-off-a-world-map.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/ikea-reportedly-apologizes-f...
- FooHentai 7y agoIKEA is a special case for New Zealand, the story goes that NZ slighted IKEA in some way a long time ago, something like being unwilling to provide favorable zoning for a flagship store, and this resulted in IKEA leadership blacklisting NZ. This is often given as the reason that no store exists even today. Quite possibly not true, more likely is that the small population and logistics complexity makes it uneconomical to service, especially for a brand that depends on scale. Apparently they're launching a store soon anyway.
- tempguy9999 7y agoQuite amazingly neither of these pages work without JS. How difficult is it to make a page saying 'not found' using static HTML, perhaps with a GIF if you want minor animation. I mean, how difficult is it to not use tech that you don't need? Edit: loved the FT 404 though
- dangrossman 7y agoYou need JavaScript to use the web in 2019. It has nothing to do with difficulty. You also need an ID to get into the boarding area of an airport and you can't smoke in restaurants. It's never going to be 1995 again. It's time to stop complaining about this.
- klez 7y agoThose are not remotely the same. A web page can function without JS. It's not something you need to display some text and some images. And it's not harmful to others. Smoking in a closed space is. Also, I can't believe every time this refrain pops up we need to be reminded that js not loading is not only a problem for those deactivating it explicitly but also in those cases when it didn't load for any number of reasons (like a bad connection). You're doing your visitors a disservice if you need js to load static text and pictures.
- Avamander 7y agoA web page can function without JS, but a lot of things seriously aren't doable with just HTML5, no matter how hard you try.
- progval 7y agoIt depends on where you draw the line between what you call a webpage vs a webapp. If a webpage is something with just text, images, and non-interactive forms (and audio and video to a lesser extent), then it's perfectly possible.
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- black_puppydog 7y agoThis is a blank page with uBlock/uMatrix. Fitting. And also the reason I haven't read a single FT page in over a year.
- kqr 7y agoOne thing that annoys me about funny 404 pages is that they tend to assume that either a) the content referenced by the URL was deleted intentionally, or b) the user mistyped the URL. While in practise, the majority of the time I hit a 404 page, it is due to malpractise by the webmaster. A 404 page has to be very funny to offset the fact that it often is very unhelpful and blames the user for the webmaster's faults. (Fortunately, I found the FT Page submitted that funny, unlike many of the others in the comments.) In that light, I find 404 pages like these refreshing for recognising the situation for what it is: https://two-wrongs.com/404 https://two-wrongs.com/404
- yorwba 7y agoBased on your username and https://xkqr.org/ https://xkqr.org/, it appears that you wrote that 404 page. You might want to state that clearly when you present it as an example to follow.
- kqr 7y agoOh, crap. I skipped proof-reading this one comment, thinking "what's the worst that can happen?" Apparently I can forget to mention that I'm linking to my own page! I'm very glad you puzzled together the domain name and my username, to make this more transparent. I'm also terribly sorry you had to do what was my job in the first place. Thank you.
- jessaustin 7y agoIt's still pretty lame that you're asking for coffee on that page.
- allover 7y agoTo be fair, that looks like their site's footer (see blog), but agree it would make sense to remove it on that page, to not contradict the message :)
- simonh 7y agoAt least the FT 404 page has the virtue of not being self-serving.
- vackosar 7y agoPersonally these special 404 just waste time and create confusion. Just a blank page with 404 and standard "Page Not Found" would be much better.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoYeah, I'd say it looks too much like a content page.
- pawelos 7y agoI wonder if this thread will cause an alarm on one the linked pages due to too high number of bad requests (and will make some poor employee investigate it on Sunday).
- benj111 7y ago"Mercantilism The page is hosted by a foreign web server and is therefore banned to ensure the supremacy of our own software." Isnt that protectionism? Wouldn't mercantilism suggest the article was better being supplied from a different website.
- RocketSyntax 7y agoIt seems to be becoming more of a problem on stackoverflow. Organizations change their documentation site and then everything that links to the old one is irrelevant.
- kirkil1 7y agoBecause you did not provide the full link... https://www.ft.com/content/a67df690-8def-11e9-a1c1-51bf8f989972 https://www.ft.com/content/a67df690-8def-11e9-a1c1-51bf8f989...
- jrockway 7y agoOne of the most interesting parts of this is, at least on my computer, the link doesn't change to the "visited" color no matter how many times I click it. I guess since it 404s, Chrome doesn't want to make me think that I successfully visited it?
- didymospl 7y agoThis is brilliant but the old 404 on Bloomberg is probably still my favorite: https://imgur.com/gallery/9Es6Z82 https://imgur.com/gallery/9Es6Z82
- rahulroy9202 7y agoimgur too : https://imgur.com/ghdhgf https://imgur.com/ghdhgf
- karjaluoto 7y agoWhen I first loaded this page, the post had exactly 404 points. :-)
- longcommonname 7y agoI like this one. OperationCode.org/pageoops
- mempko 7y agoYou can see how well they understand the theory by how funny the joke is. The marxist one is the least funny.
- kylegordon 7y agoCourtesy of my employer, we have a tailored 404 as well :-) https://www.linn.co.uk/foo https://www.linn.co.uk/foo
- floathub 7y agoBoating related, boating failure: https://floathub.com/foobar https://floathub.com/foobar
- ChrisMarshallNY 7y agoI did the old Douglas Adams Marvin 404: http://cmarshall.net/Error_404.html http://cmarshall.net/Error_404.html
- archon810 7y agohttps://www.androidpolice.com/404fjfjfjd https://www.androidpolice.com/404fjfjfjd Refresh a bunch of times, as they change.