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- bowiestyle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Having visited CERN myself, I can tell you that Room 404 is not on the fourth floor - the CERN office numbering system doesn't work like that - the first digit usually refers to the *building* number (ie. building 4), and the second two to the office number. But, strangely, there is no room "04" in building "4", the offices start at "410" and work upwards - don't ask me why. Sorry to disappoint you all, but there is no Room 404 in CERN - it simply doesn't exist, and certainly hasn't been preserved as "the place where the web began". In fact, there *is* a display about this, including a model of the first NeXT server, but the whole "Room 404" thing is just a myth."
http://www.plinko.net/404/history.asp - ghettodev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think this article should be redirected to room 406 (Not Acceptable) due to a 409 (Conflict) with reality. If only the poster checked with room 412 (Precondition Failed) i.e. researching the post first we could have left this one in 501 (Not Implemented).
- sxtxixtxcxh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://bash.org/?574088 :D
- andyzweb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hehe this is good...to start it only displays a "404 page" but give it time to "load" and it show up. its pretty cool
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"my browser says 505 object not found..... should i be woried. lmfao."
those idiots on the 5th floor are always slacking off. their database shows it, too.
when i got to the end of the story, i was expecting to read something like:
"now link to this page from 5 different blogs in the next 15 minutes, or CERN will shut down the internet."
or at least the classic, forward to X friends in X seconds or X will happen to you. - dimplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's the Atlanta area code.
- Psykus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0BS.
"HTTP response codes have a specific interpretation. In code 404, the first "4" indicates a client error, such as a mistyped URL. The following two digits indicate the specific error encountered. HTTP's use of three-digit codes is similar to the use of such codes in earlier protocols such as FTP and NNTP."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/404_error - oldcyborg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You know, I have never been to Switzerland, but I understand that it's rather cool there. Pretty well all the time..... SO, how were these people in a small HOT room, on the 4Th floor????? Hot all day and all night, since they worked around the clock. 2-3 of them at a time... Somehow, that just doesn't fit in!! The rest is masterfully done, and someone has spent a lot of time on it. Probably after they could not find out what 404 Meant.....
I dig it as Supreme Geek-defecation.
Cyborg - Dota, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0but wat if the digg effect gets it, a real 404 appears :D
- matthiasgoodman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My BS detector went of at "any request for a file was routed to that office, where two or three people would manually locate the requested files and transfer them."
- Dracos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This sounded like an urban legend (ie: *****) even as I was reading it.
Kudos to bowiestyle for pointing us at the truth. - erissiva, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I call shenanigans.
No digg. - ksgant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm going to reject bowiestyles explanation and go with the story of "room 404" because it's a much better story...full of drama and all.
Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story! - premedios, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nearly believed it myself.....
- korteenea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I click to view this digg, only to be greeted by the "Site Temporarily Unavailable. Digg is experiencing sudden massive user growth..." message.
Talk about irony. - jayteeta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0digg.
- Krisalis78, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found"
Wait 2 sec and see...... - m2bits, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0quoting:
"Having visited CERN myself, I can tell you that Room 404 is not on the fourth floor - the CERN office numbering system doesn't work like that - the first digit usually refers to the *building* number (ie. building 4), and the second two to the office number. But, strangely, there is no room "04" in building "4", the offices start at "410" and work upwards - don't ask me why. Sorry to disappoint you all, but there is no Room 404 in CERN - it simply doesn't exist, and certainly hasn't been preserved as "the place where the web began". In fact, there *is* a display about this, including a model of the first NeXT server, but the whole "Room 404" thing is just a myth."
http://www.plinko.net/404/history.asp
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Now I've never been to CERN and don't know how many floors it has or how its rooms are numbered, but the observation above was made by some Tom S. (according to plinko). How do we now this Tom S. (Tom Selleck, aka Magnum?) is legit? does he have proof, does he show pictures? Perhaps Tom S. just made up his visit to CERN. What we need is someone who works at CERN (and can prove it) to show us some proof of room 404! - 404notfound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hmm.
- Sivart832z, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, I could care less about those people in 404... Now, the people in 500... The least they could do is tell me where in the code I messed up... but no....
- rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yeah, total bs.
- Bound4Doom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, this was a load of "well you know".
404 is part of the http protocol specification as defined by the W3 along with 401,402,403 etc. Cern, well I think someone has been reading too much Dan Brown
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html for the definition of the codes from the source of the that created them. The W3 is the governing body of html, xml and the standard that they follow. - striker1211, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0BS, reported as lame. Aint it 404 because it is the fourth type of client side error in http? 4xx = client error... i thought... 401, wrong pass, 403, user shouldnt be there, etc.
- Teotitlan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It seems that this history is really well build on facts. Yes, maybe the room numbering is not quite right, but I work at CERN, for too many years now, and most of the historical facts are true. This can only be done by somebody that has been close to the real thing.
Ray van de Kamp - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0my browser says 505 object not found..... should i be woried. lmfao.
+digg - TGDuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found
lol - batv0r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1wow, a 404 page.
- cobra1122, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0you *****
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