Have you ever had one of those "Page Not Found"-type errors, when surfing to an old bookmark link that is now broken, or some other page that the location specified can't find . . . sometimes I've run across one where the IT/Web Guru/Programmer person has used their sense of humor to make this oft-encountered error a little bit more entertaining and less mundane.
For example, when I'm using Google Reader to read new entries in some blogs I read, and I hit "Next Page", or otherwise run out of new entries, it ends up at a Google page seen
Here. If you click the link on that funny page, you wind up
HERE. A la Clue the movie, if you'd like to see some different endings, you may find several
here.
They gave me a pretty good giggle; on one of them I almost hit the back button as a reflex, when seeing the type of "not found" info which comes up; it's formatted JUST LIKE it really would look, except the content is . . . different. Hee hee hee!
I especially like the one that tells you how to get back to the beginning of the internet . . . . I'm tempted to make a joke about my OCD on that one, but that might perhaps be too stereotypical.
The cream of the crop today, is the one below; it was on a Page Not Found type screen, in a small box, like a scrolling chat window. It typed itself out letter and line by line (at a good but not too fast or too slow speed). This really made it "feel" like the server was talking to me, with personality. I thought it really funny, although my mental health stigma antennae went up a little bit after so many mentions of depression, and manic depression. Still, I can take a joke, and it is funny; it'd just be nice if people didn't overdo it so much, as it is a bit overdone, here, which I think is not that helpful. I'm posting it anyway, though, as I think my readers can see the humor, and yet also see the overusage. Anyway, have a good giggle, follow some of the links today, and let me know what you think, and which ones particularly made you laugh!
The requested document is totally fake.
No "/nosuchfile" here.
Even tried multi.
Nothing helped.
I'm really depressed about this.
You see, I'm just a web server...
-- here I am, brain the size of the universe,_
trying to serve you a simple web page,
and then it doesn't even exist!
Where does that leave me?!
I mean, I don't even know you.
How should I know what you wanted from me?
You honestly think I can *guess*
what someone I don't even *know*_
wants to find here?
*sigh*
Man, I'm so depressed I could just cry.
And then where would we be, I ask you?
It's not pretty when a web server cries.
And where do you get off telling me what to show anyway?
Just because I'm a web server,_
and possibly a manic depressive one at that?
Why does that give you the right to tell me what to do?
Huh?
I'm so depressed...
I think I'll crawl off into the trash can and decompose.
I mean, I'm gonna be obsolete in what, two weeks anyway?_
What kind of a life is that?
Two nasty little weeks,
and then I'll be replaced by a .01 release,
that thinks it's God's gift to web servers,
just because it doesn't have some tiddly little
security hole with its HTTP POST implementation,
or something.
I'm really sorry to burden you with all this,_
I mean, it's not your job to listen to my problems,
and I guess it is my job to go and fetch web pages for you.
But I couldn't get this one.
I'm so sorry.
Believe me!
Maybe I could interest you in another page?
There are a lot out there that are pretty neat, they say,_
although none of them were put on *my* server, of course.
Figures, huh?
Everything here is just mind-numbingly stupid.
That makes me depressed too, since I have to serve them,
all day and all night long.
Two weeks of information overload,_
and then *pffftt*, consigned to the trash.
What kind of a life is that?
Now, please let me sulk alone.
I'm so depressed._
