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The best 404 page ever

The best 404 page I have ever seen. Text reproduced here in case they ever change it:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I websurfed, weak and weary,
Over many a strange and spurious website of 'hot chicks galore',
While I clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning,
And my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour.
"'Tis not possible," I muttered, "give me back my cheap hardcore!" -
Quoth the server, "404".
Posted 7th December 2002 at 10:37 pm

This is The best 404 page ever by Simon Willison, posted on 7th December 2002.

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4 comments

  1. The user-friendly one is also good: You're in the midst of nowhere a droplet in a mist, you musta typed in something weird this URL, it don't exist.

    Jim - 8th December 2002 10:37 - #

  2. Good, but I like prefer this one. Bascially, Marvin the Paranoid Android serving webpages. http://www.scintilla.utwente.nl/404

    Jimmy - 9th December 2002 00:47 - #

  3. no way, this is the best ever. click heh

    haha - 9th December 2002 02:23 - #

  4. This one is hot: http://www.surveysam.com/404.html

    Alex - 9th July 2005 23:58 - #

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