While recently Stumbling around the interweb, I encountered a webpage that wouldn’t load properly – a pretty common occurrence when you spend as much time online as I do. What made this particular web error special was the message I saw. Rather than the typically boring, text-based error message, I encountered this delightful image:
Shouldn’t all mistakes be handled in such a gentlemanly fashion?
Curiosity ensued and I eventually found this list of 60 Really Cool and Creative Error 404 Messages from the folks at Hongkiat. Enjoy!
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I love this one as well (it’s a non-working link to induce the 404):
http://black-sabbath.com/error
posted by Rocky on 9-9-2010 at 10:16 am
homestarrunner has a cool 404
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail876.html
posted by Ben on 9-9-2010 at 12:28 pm
I love the c64 and mario ones!
Jeopardy also has a great one, Alex saying “oohh…sorry”
posted by Wayne on 9-9-2010 at 1:57 pm
The happiest 404 page ever?
http://www.crossingdeath.com/404.html
posted by Jeff on 9-9-2010 at 3:57 pm
the swap-bot 404 is more or less a lolcat made of the site-creator’s pet chihuahua
posted by Katarina Navane on 9-9-2010 at 11:52 pm
This is the first creative 404 screen I’d ever seen: http://www.plinko.net/board — “Quoth the server: 404″
posted by Pat on 9-10-2010 at 2:17 am