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The famous Mario Bros. end of level screen, modified by Dawdle to let you know the page you are looking for is not available. No better spokesperson than the Atari 400 to notify you of a 404 at the 8Bit Museum , a website dedicated to vintage computers and consoles.

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Page 1: Best 404 Error Messages

The famous Mario Bros. end of level screen, modified by Dawdle to let you know the page you are looking for is not available.

No better spokesperson than the Atari 400 to notify you of a 404 at the 8Bit Museum, a website dedicated to vintage computers and consoles.

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On Mark Fennell's Website, you get a small flash game to help you get over this 404 error with a surprise if you reach the end!

On the brazilian website Gamelib,it's a ping-pong match with the server... Good luck scoring a single point!

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A Peugeot 404 sedan displays the 404 error: that's Peugeots version of self -deprecation.

On Dilbert you get a cartoon...

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On 3Complete, a clever use of Edvard Munch's famous scream.

Acme, a website dedicated to Unix developers, reinvents Microsoft's famous blue screen of death.

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Those colored bars were once a familiar sign of "no service" to all TV-owners. This site brings back the retro bars, but this time it means "no page found."

Blizzard, the maker of Warcraft and Diablo blames the breakdown on you!

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Mortal Kombat Online website simply uses one of the game levels for its error message.

when SquareFree doesn't find a page, it gets Google-ish and refers you to... Google!

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Songbird shows you what dead-ends 404 pages can be.

You failed to connect to the page therefore you'll stay after class according to Academic Earth,who is doling out some punishment.

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Tweetorites set you up with this video in lieu of a dull screen...

On ColourMD, there is a very interesting explanation for 404 errors...

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Warhammer Online is really sorry.

The elders who knew the Commodore 64 and it's commands system will be glad to reunite with it on Klaus.

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On the spanish website Planetgeek, you get a tee-shirt for your 404.

Another reference to the golden age of computing on this blog, However this time it's all for Amiga.

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LimpFish is desperately looking for your page, all that's missing is the reward.

BlueDaniel takes you to the 404 end of the line.

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GDZLLA, a picture sharing website, takes full responsability for the crash.

Creepy? At Version Industries, every crash gets you a different stranger staring at you til you get it right...

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Huwshimi blames the ninja!

For TysonSean, The developers are eating or playing: either way, they forgot to create the page you requested...

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MadeiraBlog displays a Madeira Islands slideshow.

ZachStronaut offers you an animation to let you know you are officially lost in space...

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Vudumedia says you made a typo; No worries, it happens all the time. Look at the many ways it was misspelled before...

NTLWorld has kidnapped your page: The ransom is set at $200 in the meanwhile you have Google help you track it.

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So your page was not found! Then what? There are so many other things that Zug would like to see found, including: their sanity, Felipe the intern's sock, and while you are at it, how about the holy Grail?

For Good Old Games a 404 error means you landed in a black hole. There is really nothing here.

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For Project Euh, there is no other way to say it.

3Complete has a very interesting theory about 404 errors: You just haven't clicked hard enough.. duh!?

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This 404 Error platform by Matthias Hoffmann is a reference to megadrive Zero Wing, a game that became famous online for its wacky translations."All your base are belong to us," one of the games popular phrases has been adapted, along with many others.

Eureka! Arbitrary Constant found the mathematical formula leading to the 404 error.

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We've seen Commodore 64 and Amiga 404 errors, Check out DOS by Realisis.

A little coding for Andrew Champ with this PHP remake of the 404 error.

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CSSLeak makes up for the crash by offering you cocktail recipes to cheer you up.