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Having fun with 404

heyzap.com

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One of my favorites is "The Most Awkward 404 Not Found Page on the Internet"[1]. It's basically just a video of a guy awkwardly holding a one-sided conversation for several minutes.

[1]: http://visitsteve.com/404.html

Reminds me of GroupOn's unsubscribe page.

http://www.groupon.com/new-york/unsubscribed?mid=96988&a...

Never understood that video... if anything it made me more annoyed at Groupon

This is by far the longest 404 i've ever stayed on

Mine was this: http://thcnet.net/yetanother404error

Reminds me of a very stripped down Robotron. Which means I'd better close this tab and never come back lest I lose another three months of my life to this game.

Reminds me of Lunatic Fringe, actually.

You mean this Lunatic Fringe? http://fringe.jamescarnley.com/ and code at http://code.google.com/p/lunatic-fringe/.

Thanks! My boss will be yelling at you within the hour.

Also nice, but not as interactive:

http://www.ibiblio.org/404/

This made me laugh from that: Emo I don't know what you're looking for but it's no use. Might as well kill yourself.

I love the slang in the different languages. Some of it is pretty accurate, from the ones I understand :)

my long time favorite http://proteys.info/404/

btw wasn't there somewhere a blog with cool 404 pages?

There are lots. For example:

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/60-really-cool-and-creative-err...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/17/404-error-pages-r...

I did NOT expect to hear a moldavian song on that.. Funny how the web still has the web to pleasantly surprise you every now and then even after years of navigating it.

I think the page is actually streaming music from somewhere because I sat through two unique songs already. That is actually even cooler if it's streaming!

Edit: It seems I'm wrong, closing the page reopened at the same song as in the beginning. The third song was a Nas rap song (??) when I accidentally closed it. Still, that would be cool.

no, there always have been those same 8 songs in a loop, you have the nav << >> on top left along with titles. the one beginning with Nas is a remix

WASD controls are not so great when you don't have a qwerty keyboard

There's no leaderboard for this?!

http://hubski.com/404

The house...

Pretty slick, but you should set the text non-selectable via CSS so that when you click and drag around to shoot, you don't end up highlighting the 404 text.

True. We should do that.

Edit: done

WASD made me realize how long it's been since I've played any game with that kind of navigation — I'm left handed, but my right hand has totally taken all of my 'arrow key' muscle memory.

well done.

The internal dialog went something like this: "hah, cute." "hmmm.. how do I move" "crap I just died." "oh, I've got extra lives.." "...and now I'm playing games at work."

Techcrunch also covered this, with more details: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/05/heyzap-404/

Should work on all modern browsers supporting the canvas tag

Did it just stop working and redirect to an ad? I was in the middle of battle..

There are no ads on heyzap.com and no redirects on that page, maybe you clicked on one of the footer links while shooting? :)

i see your developers have lots of free time on their hands ... other than that its pretty nice :)

We have a monthly hack day where everyone can work on what ever they want. It was done in one day by Micah.

oh , that's cool !

Amazing 404 page

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