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Bluestein

This is the kind of page tha the early internet thrived on. So quaint. Quirky.

(Now it is all just becoming a big, walled, advertising network ... sigh.)

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Google's is a little quirky: https://google.com/foo

"Error 404 (Not Found)!!1"

Full disclosure I work at Google.

Other google domains serve different 404 pages on different URLs sometimes, for example:

- https://www.youtube.com/djhjwhfkffs

- https://www.youtube.com/varz

- https://www.youtube.com/abortabortabort

https://twitter.com/jeffdean/status/1282882643277656065 seems to explain it - "varz" is one of the "z pages" (a convention that by now has leaked outside Google), so it's handled by the Google web server infrastructure, not by the YouTube app. And "abortabortabort" and a few others are commands that are restricted at the load-balancer level.

Some of this style has leaked out in different places. For example Envoy (and Istio, if I recall correctly) implement the /quitquitquit handler.

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