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LoisWakeman
12-01-2008, 02:04 AM
http://www.dotlaunch.com/404.html

- makes a change from the usual boring explanations, I suppose!

Note: this page contains mild comic violence and solicitation of slightly unethical behaviour. :rolleyes:
Bo Aakerstrom
12-01-2008, 03:52 AM
Them programmers are toast, as I was not the first to make that selection they probably were already.

Perhaps that says something about human nature.:)
terrie
12-01-2008, 01:57 PM
That's a pretty good page...'-}}

Terrie
ktinkel
12-01-2008, 05:33 PM
That's a pretty good page...'-}}I loved the last bit, in Arial!
Steve Rindsberg
12-15-2008, 04:44 PM
Another funny 404 I just ran across:

http://www.fitnesscycles.com/fitness_rides.htm
LoisWakeman
12-16-2008, 02:16 AM
More of an accidental "site content not found" than a 404? A real 404 is the standard IIS one.
Steve Rindsberg
12-16-2008, 06:04 AM
That or, even more likely, a page that never got finished but included HAL's voice to apologize. But I like the idea of HAL as a custom 404. Probably not legal though. Sigh.
LoisWakeman
12-18-2008, 08:01 AM
Ah - I missed HAL, Dave.
Not got the right media player I guess.
Steve Rindsberg
12-18-2008, 02:16 PM
Ah - I missed HAL, Dave.
Not got the right media player I guess.
<g>

And you were probably wondering what I'd been smoking. Other than HAL, the page was quite unremarkable.
iamback
12-20-2008, 04:20 AM
And you were probably wondering what I'd been smoking. Other than HAL, the page was quite unremarkable.HAL? and what page? confuzzled...
Steve Rindsberg
12-22-2008, 05:48 PM
http://www.fitnesscycles.com/fitness_rides.htm

HAL, the computer in 2001, A Space Odyssey, youngster. <g>
iamback
12-24-2008, 02:54 AM
http://www.fitnesscycles.com/fitness_rides.htm

HAL, the computer in 2001, A Space Odyssey, youngster. <g>I know who (or what) HAL is - but I am clueless what HAL has to do with that page!
Steve Rindsberg
12-24-2008, 10:23 AM
Turn your sound up. HAL talks to you.
Well ... to Dave.
iamback
12-26-2008, 12:19 AM
Turn your sound up. HAL talks to you.
Well ... to Dave.
Oh. Well, not to me hit doesn't - I never allow a web page to automatically play any sound and mess up whatever music I'm listening to! So since there's no (obvious) control on that page either I really have no idea!
Steve Rindsberg
12-26-2008, 06:24 AM
Oh. Well, not to me hit doesn't - I never allow a web page to automatically play any sound and mess up whatever music I'm listening to! So since there's no (obvious) control on that page either I really have no idea!
Here's where the sound comes from. It's that famous "Sorry, Dave. I can't do that" clip from 2001.

<head>
... [snip snip]
<bgsound src="2001Dave.wav" loop="0">
</head>
iamback
12-26-2008, 11:26 AM
Here's where the sound comes from. It's that famous "Sorry, Dave. I can't do that" clip from 2001.

<head>
... [snip snip]
<bgsound src="2001Dave.wav" loop="0">
</head>In the head?

bgsound??

Stunning. :rolleyes:
Steve Rindsberg
12-26-2008, 06:35 PM
In the head?

bgsound??

Stunning. :rolleyes:
Yep, I thought bgsound was something of a MSIE-ism, but Opera plays the sound as well. Go figure ...
akash
01-13-2009, 08:52 AM
page that never got finished but included HAL's voice to apologize. But I like the idea of HAL as a custom 404. Probably not legal though. Sigh.