Many of the best, most clever, 404 error pages have disappeared over the years. What are the current highlights, or ones that survived the test of time?
The text at the top is rather standard boilerplate 'page not found' verbiage, but the justifications according to the different economic theories listed afterwards is the hidden gem of this page!
Well, given what the site is doing I don't think they could really return all those status codes for the various pages and still show the images in all browsers. I think httpbin.org may be closer to what you're looking for
Also, I've been on the Internet long enough to know that there are unquestionably other sites misusing status codes, made worse by our graphql friend cheerfully packaging server errors in 200 responses
Parallax effect Github 404 was the best. I even had a coffee mug of the design they officially sold (with the text to the effect of 'This isn't the drink you're looking for') but someone took it and they no longer sell them, which was very disappointing.
Wow, yeah. I hadn't seen a GitHub 404 page in a while (new job, don't code much anymore) and my first thought on seeing it was that the 404 page was broken. That would have been an odd recursion.
"Liquidity traps
We injected some extra money into the technology team but there was little or no interest so they simply kept it, thus failing to stimulate the page economy."
As I imagine tech teams across the world thinking, "Wait! We could have just kept the money?!"
Ok, you win! I gave up at some point and started scrolling impulsively to check if this is an infinite feed generated by some llm query. Turns out it was finite.
I can't recreate the error now, but going to www.moosejaw.com in the EU used to give me the error "we can't offer products in EU... We're working on it. but until then, maybe go try some wasabi pea dust ice cream." I have a screenshot, thank god.
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https://http.cat
Also, I've been on the Internet long enough to know that there are unquestionably other sites misusing status codes, made worse by our graphql friend cheerfully packaging server errors in 200 responses
The hit counter is my favorite part.
Someone else mentioned Github which is always funny until you realized you followed a bad link to a repo you were looking for.
Thingiverse has a great one when you can force it to happen: https://www.thingiverse.com/nonexistant404page/designs
Hold LMB on it.
And I just like knowing that.
A range of spurious economic explanations for why they couldn't serve the page.
It just kinda blends in like many other sites have a site map on the 404.
That is well done, simple but a good fun if you look at it for more than a couple seconds.
"Liquidity traps We injected some extra money into the technology team but there was little or no interest so they simply kept it, thus failing to stimulate the page economy."
As I imagine tech teams across the world thinking, "Wait! We could have just kept the money?!"
I can't recreate the error now, but going to www.moosejaw.com in the EU used to give me the error "we can't offer products in EU... We're working on it. but until then, maybe go try some wasabi pea dust ice cream." I have a screenshot, thank god.
( There were several others over the years, here's the previous one: https://www.masswerk.at/status/?404 )
https://ibb.co/qkhjv9R
(What did you do?)
https://mercury.com/404
My high score today is 33.
https://root.cern/404/
It is the error you wish was true in your life.
* Used as C++ interpreter with devilish syntax to help physicists do data analysis.
Seems like someone's recreated it here https://thebest404pageeverredux.com/
[1] https://worldofspectrum.org/404.html
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39870902
(My browser window is one half of a 4K monitor, so the Spectrum screen is shown in "portrait mode")
Cleaned up some of the spelling and grammar and took this for my own site :)