Where does the error 'Error 404' come from?

Error 404 (Error 404) error when not accessing the website appears in comic books, written stories and is printed heavily on T-shirts.

As the name implies, Error 404 just can't find the website as requested, possibly because the site is temporarily 'dead' or the server hosting the site has problems.

In terms of emotion, Error 404 indicates frustration or notices about unexpected issues. It is a reminder that technology, especially the website, is made by humans so it can be problematic at any time.

After all, the Internet is a difficult machine to be fully oiled. It is woven from one-way hypertext, links (links) and corrupted image files and unfinished information.

Not long after the web appeared, users began sharing this common error code. In the early 2000s, Error 404 was derived from room 404, where the first web server system of CERN (European Nuclear Research Organization) was located in Switzerland.

CERN is also home to Tim Berners-Lee's office, the 'father' of. People rarely see him here.

Netizens are often very inhibited with 404 errors.

However, Robert Cailliau - the pioneer who developed the hypertext structure at the same time with Tim Berners-Lee said that the information is only fabricated.

Although the error code is necessary, it is not a top concern.'When writing code for a new system, you don't need to spend too much time writing long messages for the error-generating situation,' Cailliau said.

In addition, limited memory at that time was also a factor affecting this. It is difficult to give longer messages when the program is only programmed with 64k memory.

The solution given is quite simple: assign the number to the error message. At that time, programmers often assigned a number of 400 for errors from the client side, and the number '404' was chosen to describe the 'not found' error .

Robert Cailliau claims that 404 is unrelated to any room or place of CERN.'It's a complete rumor,' Cailliau said.

Even so, Error 404 is still very common in everyday life when people mean the harsh reality, not as expected.

Error 404 was used for her election campaign, from a very potential candidate, who left the president in the last minute.

Error 404 was used to express disappointment in the climate change treaty, EU sharing and gun restrictions in the United States.