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The fact that otherwise non-technical people joke about staying in hotel room 404 just shows how pervasive the modern Internet has become. As an aside, it also shows the importance of a good error message; there are some errors (like "Not Found") in HTTP that are simple and clear, and some ("Bad Gateway"?) that are more impenetrable.
No-one jokes about staying in room 504, and the room service never arriving.
(And perhaps one of the larger Lemmies can get a hold of Victoria, get these AMAs going for real.)
It's discontinued as a code, but perhaps we could get people using 102: Processing as a response online when someone says something unexpected or stupid-sounding.
HTTP/1.1 102 Processing
Content-Type: application/wtf
I once made an historical 404 joke saying 'Athens not found' as in 404 bc Athens lost the Peloponnesian war against Sparta and was sacked, never to regain the power it once held.
I don't think many of my fellow students got the http error level of the joke, though.
That's sounds like a joke that is always followed by a long and contrived explanation followed by an awkward silence. The best kind of joke.
Twas, yes. Was pleasing to me, at least.
I like this answer. Thanks!