![[1142] 404](/comics/2020-01-03-1142-404.png "[1142] 404")
I was without internet for a day, but the waiting time for the connection upgrade was certainly worth it:
- Richard: It’s gone…
- Sandra: What’s gone?
- Richard: rpgboards.com
- Richard: Of the ten websites I used to visit when I was a teenager, it was the last one that was still online. Now all that is left of them is a few pages on archive.org.
- Richard: It feels like half of my youth has been deleted.
- Sandra: Well, ___________________________________
- Sandra: ?
- Sign: Producer
- Sandra: Where’s the joke, Novil?!
- Novil: 484 – Joke not found!
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C’mon, Novil, 404 is “page not found”. “Joke not found” could be 405 or some other yet unused number. 😛
Totally hysterical!
Hegel Marx wrote:
Good idea. I just changed the strip accordingly.
I love Sandra’s face in the bottom centre frame, made my day.
@ Novil:
How are your wounds from Powree’s parker?
Too bad it is 1142
Hegel Marx wrote:
405 is used… the first unused one is 419… 418 is reserved for “I’m a teapot” (And I’m not even joking, even though this status was created for April Fools Joke)
Strictly speaking, the response should be 501 “not implemented”… Or are least, something in the 500s, since it is definitely a server issue and not a client issue! ^^
@ Trimutius:
Well, 418 is a perfectly normal answer to anyone. In Russia, early morning Jan 1st. I wonder what is the state of Novil at that moment…
Considering some of the stuff people post online having websites only last a few decades might be a good thing.
Nonsens wrote:
Unless you are indeed a teapot
james cronin wrote:
Don’t worry. The embarrassing stuff you posted is certainly backed up somewhere. (In extreme cases, in linux fortunes.)
@ Hegel Marx:
404 is actually just “Not found” it can apply to more that just pages, so a joke would have worked too.
404.1 is actually the one that is specifically for files and directories, and similarly something like 404.24 could be used for “Joke not found or refused to be delivered”.
Well, I guess the joke is that comedians are some of the best critical thinkers and the absence of a joke here is to make us think for ourselves.
What I mean is that this lead me to try and think of a joke, but resulted in this reasoning:
In a world:
– where climate change is now a reality, after dozens of years of warnings…
– where many people still believe the Earth is flat, in spite of the evidence has existed for hundreds of years of it being round…
– where vaccines have been proven to be our salvation for dozens of years and yet some people want to ban them just due to some poorly proven rumors…
– where we have web.archive.org which has been sort-of struggling every year to get enough funding to backup the internet… and if they had the funding needed back then, rpgboards.com would be backed up and fully browse-able right now, even if the original website is dead for more than 10 years now.
The past is gone, unless we do something to preserve it. The present and the future will be gone too, if we don’t do something about it…
Oh, I’ve got the joke now: “Well, simply wait for another 10-20 years for history to repeat itself.”
At least Novil didn’t try to hide hide and pull a 418 on us.
Darn, I was hoping for a followup to the last one…
Quoth the server – 404…
I am a teapot? Is that a reference to how the Meklar in the strategy game “Master of Orion: Conquer the Stars” respond to a trade offer that they feel is beneath them? Because that IS one of their dialogue lines.
Contact the creator, ask to be the one to maintain it. considering his profession both should be at least plausible.
@ Ratfox:
204 No Content
To me that is the only fitting one.
a 500 series would mean there is content but not able to serve. aka no comic.
@ Hegel Marx:
405 is “Method not allowed” @ Hegel Marx:
405 is “method not allowed”
While others debate the proper code for the joke, I’m staring at your new download speed trying to not be jealous. On a good day here in the Maine wilderness, my tin can with shoestring connection might do 5.5.
Do we need a new RFC?
NERRRRRRDS!
Right in the feels!
I doubt modern youth can ever relate. Sites like YouTube and Wikipedia are going to be around for a very long time.
I recognize this, though when I was a teenager there wasn’t really much of an internet.
Later I spent a ton of time answering questions and helping people with technical information in some groups on IRC, or Internet Relay Chat. IRC was used for everything from sharing jokes to technical discussions and file sharing, and it used to be that almost all ISP’s maintained IRC servers with at least most of the more harmless groups.
At one time I did a search for my posts and was surprised that I’d posted several thousands of them in just a few groups.
Now most people don’t even know what IRC is, and a lot of the ISP has taken down their servers. Most all of the posts I made on IRC are now gone. At times I remember posting something that I’d like to take a look at again, but although I’ve been able to find a few of those posts, most often copied by some one to some other forum, most of them are simply not there anymore.
Fortunately technology marches on and most of my old posts are no longer relevant other than for the few who try to keep 20 to 30 year old computers working.