The 404 page of the <i>Financial Times</i> is one of my favourites: <a href="https://www.ft.com/404" rel="nofollow">https://www.ft.com/404</a>
I appreciate the ones that acknowledge that its probably them that deleted the page and broke the link, instead of saying "looks like you're lost"
This is one that I slapped up, many years ago: <a href="https://cmarshall.net/Error_404.html" rel="nofollow">https://cmarshall.net/Error_404.html</a> (the site, itself, is pretty much moribund).<p>I took the code from some other site. Can’t remember where, exactly. Like much of Internet history, it seems to be lost in the mists of time.
Put it to good use - using <a href="https://notfound.org" rel="nofollow">https://notfound.org</a> for your 404 could help find missing kids.
Peugeot.com's 404 page includes - naturally - a picture of Peugeot 404. Unfortunately, there aren't enough Peugeot models for all HTTP status codes.
In NZ culture there’s a house #404, halfway between the CBD and the suburb, about half an hour by 70 bus.<p>Somewhere near: <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/kquCDUWtEWGbp1qX7?g_st=ic" rel="nofollow">https://maps.app.goo.gl/kquCDUWtEWGbp1qX7?g_st=ic</a><p>“404 Great South Road, Greenlane, Auckland 1051“
Yahoo's 404 at Pacific Bell Park was pretty cool.<p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2008/08/25/yahoos-404-at-giants-stadium/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2008/08/25/yahoos-404-at-giants-stadi...</a>
Their own page is also amusing: <a href="https://www.404s.design/hackernews" rel="nofollow">https://www.404s.design/hackernews</a>
imo it should be considered to achieve the 404 design with minimal complexity. Keep the document small, to prevent i.e. old touch/favicon requests from wasting lots of bandwidth.<p>(Not intended to criticize this post)