OT: 404 [Was Re: [LINK] 'Yellow Pages' as a Trademark

[Roger Clarke]

Yep, it's been debunked at least, let's see, 404 times:
http://www.plinko.net/404/history.asp

At 13:24 +1100 19/1/08, Rick Welykochy wrote:
><unrelated type=rant>
>* on some science show on ABC/RN the other day (or was it on Sleek Geeks
>   on ABC/TV?) mention was made of the origin of ERROR 403 PAGE NOT FOUND.
>   First off, the error code is 403. Second, the show reported that the
>   error code was "named" after Room 403 at CERN. Ridiculous, I
>   say. The error codes for HTTP[1] were modeled after those for FTP[2]
>   and I strongly doubt any connection to Room 403.
>
>[1] <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html>
>
>[2] 
><http://www.altools.net/Portals/0/support/alftp/ALFTP_4x/FTP_response_codes_rfc_959_messages.htm>

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