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I like the idea of haiku error messages (as in Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett's Good Omens). "Site not found" becomes, with some LLM assistance: Amidst cyberspace

I like the idea of haiku error messages (as in Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett's Good Omens). "Site not found" becomes, with some LLM assistance: Amidst cyberspace vast, Site elusive, lost in void, Unreachable code.

jerbear4328 3y ago
That isn't a valid haiku, and it's much less clear, in my opinion. If you give me a nice big "404 Not Found" up front and then include a poem, HTTP cat, or easter egg, that would give the page personality while still being immediately useful.
- seabass-labrax 3y ago
  Of course, it is still both a 404 HTTP response and a proper HTML webpage - so both the user agent and the website have an opportunity to explain the error. If both of them try to be funny, though, that's no good.
rzzzt 3y ago
A Salon article inspired many examples from readers: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku.en.html https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku.en.html (I could swear that one of these appeared in BeOS' NetPositive browser if you visited a site without network access... but now I'm not so sure.) Edit: now I'm sure: https://8325.org/haiku/ https://8325.org/haiku/
- seabass-labrax 3y ago
  I find this one hilarious, and rather relevant to this thread: "Errors have occurred. We won't tell you where or why. Lazy programmers." Thank you for sharing them :)