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From dsblack@iastate.edu Mon Aug 23 19:05:19 1999
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Subject: 404
Reply-Path: dsblack@iastate.edu
From: dsblack@iastate.edu (Dan Black)
Keywords: smirk, internet, original
Approved: funny-request@netfunny.com
Path: myrddin.imat.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.gctr.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.netfunny.com!funny-request
Followup-To: rec.humor.d
Message-ID: <Se47.155f@netfunny.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 19:30:00 PDT
Lines: 61
Xref: myrddin.imat.com rec.humor.funny:708
I thought I saw a poem once about the 404 error message, but I couldn't
find it anywhere, in my files or on the web, including at the rhf web
site. So I wrote my own; it is now the error message given for a 404 on
the server in my office. So I guess this is all original.
404
It is said, "To err is human,"
That quote from alt.times.lore,
Alas, you have made an error,
So I say, "404."
Double-check your URL,
As we all have heard before.
You ask for an invalid filename,
And I respond, "404."
Perhaps you made a typo --
Your fingers may be sore --
But until you type it right,
You'll only get 404.
Maybe you followed a bad link,
Surfing a foreign shore;
You'll just have to tell that author
About this 404.
I'm just a lowly server
(Who likes to speak in metaphor),
So for a request that I don't know,
I must return 404.
Be glad I'm not an old mainframe
That might just dump its core,
Because then you'd get a ten-meg file
Instead of this 404.
I really would like to help you,
But I don't know what you're looking for,
And since I don't know what you want,
I give you 404.
Remember Poe, insane with longing
For his tragically lost Lenore.
Instead, you quest for files.
Quoth the Raven, "404!"
by Dan Black
dan@black.org
16 August 1999
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