“404 error page” – A common term to every internet users. But do you know from where it comes. In an office on the fourth floor (Room 404), an ambitious group of young scientists at CERN (Switzerland) located the World Wide Web’s central database. When the record of database started to increase, not only the amount of requests grew, but also increased the amount of requests that could not be fulfilled. Generally it occurs, because of requested a file in the incorrect name. Soon these error requests were replied with a regular message: “Room 404: file not found”. From where we get our today’s “404 error page”.
But today the error message is not bounded within a simple message, now this message comes with various visual presentations. Here you can see some great examples of this “404 error page” done by great designers.
Most amusing (and inspiring!) Thanks!
GREAT list. I’m loving the Limpfish one, hilariously clever!
Great collection. Keep up
See more 404 error page in my blog: http://www.danhbaweb20.com/?p=316
What did you mean about my 404: http://tatort-fans.de/404 a german Webpage about Tator a german TV Show since 1970
Great ones! “Whoops looks like we lost one!” is the best one. Keep it up.
Thanks Faisal. Great collections
Very cool! Everyone has it particular context very well applied… long life to designers!
I also liked this 404:
http://www.opticalfire.com/gksks
Thank for sharing. So funny!
Nice collection!
Check this 404 page on my portfolio website: http://www.zoranperin.com/qwertz
http://www.heroes-cz.com/404
we have new 404 page in style of TV show Heroes
it’s a great list of amazing 404 pages !!
lol… cool collection! keep it up
Cool and funny 😉
These are great. Thanks for sharing.
beautiful collection! thanks very much!
This is our 404: http://tractr.net/404
Chears!
Nice examples.
Smashing Magazine made 3 articles about the subject (google “404 not found smashing magazine” to find them).
Here is our contribution to this “exercice de style” as we say in french (we’ve used the character we’ve designed for our logo):
http://www.casino-lemonade.com/404/
The gallery is great, but the story about the alleged “Room 404” is absurd. It must be a fake. The response codes in the internet protocols are made to be classified. The first “4” digit means that this is an error code, and the “04” means that is the fouth type of error in the protocol specs. Other prefixes are: “1” informational, “2” success, “3” redirection, etc… Is absurd to think that “404” was a room number.
@ – Pampli – I got the history information of “404 error page” from http://www.room404.com/page.php?pg=homepage
I came across this funny one too:
http://rhodaw.com/contact.html
http://www.intelcom-connect.ru/404.html
I loved the idea of create my own 404 page, and I made a game about it
http://www.wildharmonystudio.com/404.php
hope you like it 🙂
http://www.burek.com/404.html
very cool !!!!!!!!