404 Pages - Funny, Geeky, Disturbing

November 20th, 2007

I recently moved some directories on my website and I’m now redirecting some residual 404s. In the process, I was thinking about creating a customized 404 page and wanted to see what other folks were doing with their 404s. What I found was funny, geeky, disturbing yet all around, entertaining. Here are some of the jems I found:

Blog Jams - Lionel Richie

There’s music with this one. Lionel Richie is singing, “well hello, is it me you’re looking for”. The overly sensitive males of the cheesy 80’s get to host this 404.
http://www.blogjam.com/whatever

Trinicom 404

You’ll notice just about every story on this faux news page pertains to a 404. Note the All Your Base reference at the bottom right.
http://www.trinicom.com/trinicom/servererror/404.htm

Pownce 404

Of course Pownce…”it’s a trap!”. Simple and funny.
http://www.pownce.com/404.html

Retard Zone 404

This one comes from Retard Zone. The combo of aesthetics, bizarreness, and ridicularity merge in this Bermuda Triangle of a 404.
http://retardzone.com/ifarted

Gelato Cms 404

This 404 displays a cracked out milk shake running and screaming across the screen while evil techno music plays in the background.
http://gelatocms.com/404

Zug 404

Not only is the page missing but here are some other things that have also gone missing: http://www.zug.com/mp3/nothere.htm

Baxizgd 404

Pretty cool albeit geeky 404 which presents 37 different moments from the Capcom game Phoenix Wright in all its 8 bit glory.
http://www.bazixgd.com/nonexistantpage

Etsy 404

Etsy has a great 404 from Nintendo’s Link (a game I probably played way too much back in the day).
http://www.etsy.com/error.php?error_id=12

Jib Jab 404

Of course Jib Jab would have something funny right? Not bad:
http://www.jibjab.com/404.html

Urban Outfitters

Urban Outfitters has one…not that impressive, only because they paid someone half a cent in Malaysia to build it.
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/html/404.html

B3ta 404