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- dusingaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5http://digg.com/users/tuxian2k4/dig
Looks like tuxian2k4 really likes digging things from the techblabber.com blog..... must be his.
Lets try linking to the original content, not your blog. - WallPhone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Room 101: Managment (Switching Protocols)
Room 201: God (Created)
Room 202: Trash (Accepted)
Room 203: Helpdesk (Non-Authoritative Information)
Room 204: Break room (No Content)
Room 301: Suggestion box (Moved Permanently)
Room 303: Lobby (See Other)
Room 402: Champane room (Payment Required)
Room 503: Restroom (Service Unavailable) - misterpony, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.caspers.com/room404
- Xopl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a work of fiction.
- ejunker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The official HTTP Status Codes can be found here. It explains what the numbers mean. For example, all 4xx errors indicate a Client Error.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html - TheAttacks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ironically enough, the 404 Page Not Found error is exactly what I'm seeing, is this a gimic?! lol
- DJFMA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Could have gave us a direct link.... instead of to a blog, which pretty much just copied and pasted text from room404.com
- jodamiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This seems to have the same authenticity as any other lame and false email forward that get squashed by spam filters on a regular basis.
- Hitchhiker90, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why not 303? Because a 303 is a drum machine as well as an 808. And for these reasons they wouldn't work well on a web page.
- ntufar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nope. It is not true. See RFC 2616, Section 10.
- bysin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No digg, site reported. Complete *****.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*cough*******cough*
No, the real reason for the 404 error code is because a long time ago, Brer Rabbit lived in the briar patch, and there were 404 fleas on his hide. He tell dem fleas, "Why you be pickin on me?" and the 404 fleas left in shame. Then Brer Fox come up and say, "Where dem fleas?" and Brer Rabbit say "404 not found".
True story. Well, at least as true as some baloney about CERN's room layout as a world metaphor. - frickindeal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1BS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/404_error
Research is your friend. - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ejunker: Interesting link.. Kind of neat, when was the last time you saw a 410 instead of a 404??!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Amusingly, I just got a 404 error trying to view the site.
- spling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'd digg this, but it's linked to a blog. No digg.
When are people going to learn to read?
Link Directly to the Source: Save people time by linking directly to the original news story.
"Link Directly to the Source"
LINK DIRECTLY TO THE SOURCE!
I hear repition helps to make people remember.
SO LINK DIRECTLY TO THE SOURCE! WE DON'T WANT TO SEE YOUR BLOG! - chaosfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Safari can’t connect to the server.
Safari can’t open the page “http://techblabber.com/internet/the-history-of-404-page-not-found/” because it could not connect to the server “techblabber.com”.yes, it is ironic, theattacks - dotwhynot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Everybody knows that this is the real 404 of the Internet:
http://my.core.com/~oldgrendel/cannot_find_p0rn.htm - chevybythesea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Only a page 404 for me when I try to see this too....just looks like a prank.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0DEMP
- griz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Holy CRAP!!! WTF? I am not entirely sure.
- DiggedBy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0404 is 500
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is like that "404 Pages from around the world" link. Heh.
- griz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Apparently I clicked on the wrong comment link. WAAAAA Too much coffee. Sorry.
Would be nice if DIGG allowed you to correct the submission of your own comment after the fact.
Oh well. - simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ntufar
I looked up RFC 2616, Section 10 and it does not in fact tell you the history of 404. That's the only thing certain about 404 you can attain from RFC. - ianhobbies, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0repost
- mr_mechanics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is such an old story, yet it seems to come up about once every three or four months on digg. Lame.
- Freakwit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://digg.com/science/The_history_of_404
- tangledweb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It is a little sad that being obviously bogus does not harm a story's chances of making it to the home page.
Sadly, I think I accidentally contributed to the problem. By using digg's "blog this" feature to write in my blog that it is highly unlikely, I seem to have accidentally dugg it.
Can you undigg a story? How will I ever live down the shame. - cluelessblues, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, no digging. Check it: http://www.plinko.net/404/history.asp
- zeroun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The picture on the room404 has to be older than the world wide web.
- giaguara, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and to think the first computer I ever tried to hack was located at CERN ...
- jadzor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Lame post. People that blog things without facts should be shot.
dig-- - djfelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A quick visit to the 404 Research lab is all you need:
http://www.plinko.net/404/history.asp - recon16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i got a 404 trying to see it!
- SleighBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can't find a source, but I had heard that ethernet specs got started the same way also. e.g. "802"
- foofightrs777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0LOL..link is now "404 Not Found"
..Internet irony at its finest... gotta love the digg effect - midbc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0420 cannot be found find a new dealer
- esteban, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0no diggety.
- Snarfalunch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Inaccurate
- Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This smacks of urban legend, and there is nothing to back it up.
If you read the RFCs, you'd see that HTTP has a well defined three-digit error code system. 2xx are acknowledgement messages. 3xx are content-related messages. 4xx are client error codes (403, for example, is "forbidden"). 5xx are server-side errors.
So, the format is "XYY" where X is the category, and YY is the individual error code.
I'm going to report this as inaccurate. - energyblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I digg, if its real or not, still interesting read.
- qishi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow. That's one poorly written article. The middle sentence in the description is a gem.
- tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0God damn, that's enough on 404. Too many damn stories, aren't there more interesting things on the internet than ***** 404s?
- colebarnes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Griz... wow, how did you even manage that?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0LOL griz........wrong story
- DJFMA, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Griz... reply to the wrong topic, much? :)
- clabbergrrl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0"Safari can’t connect to the server.
Safari can’t open the page"
So much for the theory that Macs are better. - griz, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Who really cares?? Are the RIAA CD ripping police going to come knocking on my door when they hear a CD spin up at the same time my Hard drive starts saving data?
There is no way to police this, however, if this does become a truth, then there will be no argument against them placing anti-RIP protection on the CD because you can't cry that your fair use rights are being taken away.
Still, we have seen what happens when companies like Sony get too protective. It just backfires.
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