Who has the best sorry page ?
Even the best have some down time.But not every web company keeps a sense of humor about it… here are a few examples.
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Google : if we’re not back, you’re in trouble, so cross your fingers.
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Flickr : You have a massage.
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More Flickr : This time, it’s hiccups.
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Myspace: while we’re down, you can still waste your time..
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Reddit : really looking sorry.
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Digg : While not digging, digg this…
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Technorati : where has the monster gone? he probably got sick of blogs.
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Windows live : even they recognize they suck !
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Twitter : So sorry….
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Youtube : we are actively fixing it.
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Zapping a few gremlins…
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and a last one from Youtube, a nice error 500 :
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April 15th, 2007 at 12:01 am
Do you have the twitter.com one? It’s a cat on a server that says, “I’m in yr server, hacking yr filez”… it’s pretty good.
April 15th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Wow! You answered one of those “what if” questions that use to pop up now and then. Good work!
April 15th, 2007 at 12:15 am
@ Mike : No I never saw the twitter one. If someone could post a link to the screenshot, that would be cool.
April 15th, 2007 at 12:17 am
whereis.mit.edu has some pretty good ones that show up briefly while waiting for a map to load.
April 15th, 2007 at 1:17 am
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April 15th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Lol
April 15th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Where’s Twitter?
http://twitter.com/error
April 15th, 2007 at 11:33 am
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April 15th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
great XD
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April 15th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
I like the last.fm sorry page. Asks you to enjoy a cup of tea and try again later.
April 15th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Which Site Has the Best “Server Down” Page? (Google, YouTube, Flickr, etc.)…
Even the best have some down time…some of these are quite amusing….
April 15th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
LOL very nice.
But when i’m surfing, i couldn’t find such pages…
could u wite the time and date when the error occures?
April 15th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
youtubes is definately the best!
April 15th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
rofl
April 15th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Google
April 15th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
I like Etsy’s the best: http://www.flickr.com/photos/slolane/460210441/
April 15th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
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April 15th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Homestarrunner - The System is Down Yo
April 15th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Nice Post!
April 15th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Seems you missed the Bloglines Plumber.
Screenshot e.g. here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shizhao/439457230/
April 15th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
I like Twitter’s
http://twitter.com/404
April 16th, 2007 at 12:13 am
huh i am Logged in as JFB? Who’s that? Guest account?
The pics are extreme fun, thx for postin them!
April 16th, 2007 at 12:51 am
how about they all fucking suck?
April 16th, 2007 at 1:08 am
i lol’d
April 16th, 2007 at 1:42 am
muajajaja
funny stuff
April 16th, 2007 at 2:24 am
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April 16th, 2007 at 4:50 am
technoraty rulz!! =)
April 16th, 2007 at 8:20 am
Cool blog.
April 16th, 2007 at 11:10 am
I guess to get dugg you’ve got to write something funny but tech related.
April 16th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
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April 17th, 2007 at 8:05 am
You forgot the “Bad, bad server. No donut for you.” page of Orkut.
You can get it from the following :
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~kshitij/orkut_server_error.png
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April 17th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
realy cool!!
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April 25th, 2007 at 1:39 am
Nice ones.
But although its a 404-Page, no Downtime notification, Marvin still rules: http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/humor/marvin-the-server-404.html
April 25th, 2007 at 2:30 am
CodeProject.com has a great one:
“Hear that crunching sound? Something just broke.”
April 25th, 2007 at 2:31 am
Sorry, here’s the full page text:
Oops!
Hear that crunching sound? Something just broke.
Why did this happen?
Because either we screwed up in a way that wasn’t immediately obvious until now, or because the ASP engine running this site has just rolled over and died, or because the site is simply having a bad hair day.
Options
1. Try and do whatever you did again.
2. Open the CodeProject home page, and then look for links to the information you want. Sure, the information you need is probably on this page, but you never know your luck in a big city.
3. Pray, curse, or sacrifice burnt offerings, then see 1.
April 26th, 2007 at 12:52 am
I don’t know if any of you have heard of it, but www.purepwnage.com has a pretty funny one.
http://www.purepwnage.com/dggsfdgkln
That should give you a 404.
April 27th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
flickr has the best one i think.
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Try this: www.b3ta.com/error404/
Watch all the way through, its all user submitted content, so sometimes NSFW
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:27 pm
zapping gremlings had me snickering.
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:38 pm
rofl i’ve actually gotten that last one
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:41 pm
lol nice
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:13 pm
thats so crazy when i pressed the link for this site a error page came up for me
May 3rd, 2007 at 9:56 pm
strange
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:23 pm
nice…..
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May 4th, 2007 at 12:57 am
Cool
May 4th, 2007 at 1:32 am
i know it’s not a real down page,but check out
thispagecannotbedisplayed.com
May 4th, 2007 at 1:59 am
good i guess? just wanted the first comment
May 4th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Who is jfb?
May 12th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
pretty good ones
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June 17th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
I agree with the comment that a good 404 should not redirect on its own, I would much rather have choice or be told I missed a target.
I’m not sure if this one qualifies as good but maybe a bit funny.
http://www.buildhardlink.com/signup
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September 7th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
I love Technorati error page
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October 11th, 2007 at 4:34 am
YOUTUBE’s ikea-apology is still the best sorry page: http://tinyurl.com/2mtw4o
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April 16th, 2008 at 6:13 am
I think stumble upon has the best one. But it’s not on here. It says something to the effect of they’re down temperately so you should try going outside. There’s like a simplified/cartoony playground type picture.
April 16th, 2008 at 7:07 am
Hi Steph,
you are right, here is the Stumble page :
http://www.365questions.org/2008/01/15/stumbling-down/
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May 4th, 2008 at 6:52 am
You’ve got to go with youtube here. Theirs are always hilarious.