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Intro 7404 History 9Pantography 21– intermezzoMicrofilm Abstract 37Magnolia 49Neon 57Spam 83Google Translate 112– intermezzoPersonal 123The Amazing Criswell 135Explosions 150Debussy 161– intermezzoMyotonia Congenita 180Costa Concordia 195Search Engines 201Race: LM55 219 SM94 245 T02 273– intermezzoBruises 291My TV 312My External HDD 331XXX 353

XXX 375– intermezzoXXX 393Outro 401

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Intro

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404 History

As you might know, and probably have come across while browsing the internet, the famous “error 404” indi-cates a requested page that could not be found on the servers of a website. “404 is an HTTP status code. Every time you visit a web page, your com-puter (the ‘client’) is requesting data from a server using HTTP, or Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Before the web page is even displayed in your browser, the web server has sent the HTTP header, which contains the status code. Not surprisingly, your browser has sent the server its own headers, which contain a lot more information about you than you think!

For a normal web page, the status is 200 OK. You don’t see this because the server proceeds to send you the con-tents of the page. It’s only when you encounter an error that you see the actual status code, such as 404 Not Found.” (source: 404lab)

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During some first searches I immedi-ately found out there are lots of differ-ent theories on the origins of the term 404.One of them sounds like a myth, but this is how it goes:

“Before the beginning of time, when the Internet was still very much un-der the spell of bare Unix shells and Gopher, before SLIP or PPP became widely used, an ambitious group of young scientists at CERN (Switzer-land) started working on what was to become the media revolution of the nineties: the World Wide Web, later to be known as WWW, or simply ‘the Web’. Their aim: to create a database infrastructure that offered open access to data in various formats: multi-me-dia. The ultimate goal was clearly to create a protocol that would combine text and pictures and present it as one document, and allow linking to other such documents: hypertext.

Because these bright young minds were reluctant to reveal their prog-ress (and setbacks) to the world, they

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started developing their protocol in a closed environment: CERN’s internal network. Many hours were spend on what later became the world-wide standard for multimedia documents. Using the physical lay-out of CERN’s network and buildings as a metaphor for the ‘real world’ they situated differ-ent functions of the protocol in differ-ent offices within CERN.

In an office on the fourth floor (room 404), they placed the World Wide Web’s central database: any request for a file was routed to that office, where two or three people would manually locate the requested files and transfer them, over the network, to the person who made that request.

When the database started to grow, and the people at CERN realised that they were able to retrieve documents other than their own research-papers, not only the number of requests grew, but also the number of requests that could not be fulfilled, usually because the person who requested a file typed

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in the wrong name for that file. Soon these faulty requests were answered with a standard message: ‘Room 404: file not found’.

Later, when these processes were automated and people could directly query the database, the messageID’s for error messages remained linked to the physical location the process took place: ’404: file not found’.

The room numbers remained in the error codes in the official release of

Commemorative plaque for the birth of the internet at CERN

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HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) when the Web left CERN to conquer the world, and are still displayed when a browser makes a faulty request to a Web server. In memory of the he-roic boys and girls that worked deep into the night for all those months, in those small and hot offices at CERN, Room 404 is preserved as a ‘place on the Web’. None of the other rooms are still used for the Web. Room 404 is the only and true monument to the begin-ning of the Web, a tribute to a place in the past, where the future was shaped.” (source: room404.com)

404lab states that this in fact is just a myth, as a certain Tom S. testifies: “Having visited CERN myself, I can tell you that Room 404 is not on the fourth floor – the CERN office num-bering system doesn’t work like that – the first digit usually refers to the *building* number (ie. building 4), and the second two to the office number. But, strangely, there is no room “04” in building “4”, the offices start at “410” and work upwards – don’t ask

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me why. Sorry to disappoint you all, but there is no Room 404 in CERN – it simply doesn’t exist, and certainly hasn’t been preserved as “the place where the web began”. In fact, there *is* a display about this, including a model of the first NeXT server, but the whole “Room 404” thing is just a myth.” (source: 404lab)

Instead, 404lab dissects the number 404, and what it stands for: “The first 4 indicates a client error. The server is saying that you’ve done something wrong, such as misspell the URL or request a page which is no longer there. Conversely, a 5xx error indicates a server-side problem. It also indicates an error which may be transient; if you try it again, it may work. The middle 0 refers to a general syntax error. This could indicate a spelling mistake. The last 4 just indicates the specific er-ror in the group of 40x, which also includes 400: Bad Request, 401: Unau-thorized, etc.

According to the W3C, 404 Not Found

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is only supposed to be used in cases where the server cannot find the re-quested location and is unsure of its status. If a page has permanently been deleted, it is supposed to use 410: Gone to indicate a permanent change. But has anyone ever seen 410? It must be 404…” (source: 404lab)

Here we also learn about the W3C. Amongst web designers around the world very well known, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) de-

The CERN globe, becoming a landmark for CERN

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fines the standards for the internet, which codes that can be used (HTML, CSS, PHP, …) and how they need to be used. We also learn from another excerpt from the text on 404lab, that the founder, and in fact also the inven-tor of the internet as we know it, Tim Berners-Lee based all the HTTP codes

on the already existing and already well established FTP status codes: “HTTP status codes were established

Tim Berners-Lee behind his computer

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by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1992, as a part of the HTTP 0.9 spec. They were defined by Tim Berners-Lee, the same person who single-handedly invented the web and the first web browser in 1990. Berners-Lee based the HTTP status codes on FTP status codes, which were already well established by 1990; the official FTP spec is dated 1985, although FTP has actually been in use much longer.” (source: 404lab)

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Pantography

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nostio et venis nisi.Duis et euisl ea facidunt iurer sum-molortio do odionse molore dolorem endre dolutat. Ut vel dolorer ciduisi.Feum nos ation hendit, vel utat. Odo od elenit lum zzrilit vulla adignim doloree tumsan ut augiam, volor aute eugait inciduisl ea faccum iurem do-lortie facipis auguer at ing eumsandre con ute voloreet, velit praessequip euipit nonsed ex et lore magniam ese molesectem ad eugait iriure tinim dignit, velis eum augait nim veros nos aliquat.Cum quatue magnis dolor sit in velese esto doloree tueratu ercipit irit niam veratummy nullutat do odiat.Ugiam zzrillum do odolore diam, quip-sus tionulla feugiat. Duisl erostinci bla feum dolorer autat. Quipsustion venit prat dit prat. Min ullan henim velit, consent lor sis nit, vulla autpatem zzrit volorper iliqui erat, se etum dolortion-um ipsuscidui bla conse velestio ex es-ecte diamet, core dolorerit ad tincilisis alisl ero odo odoloreet, commod ero etummodio od magna con ut loborper in eugiat alisi tem zzrilit alismol estrud

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Microfilm Abstract

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Magnolia

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Neon

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Spam

Another idea I had came from all the daily spam in my mailbox. How old email addresses (or even current ones that are still in use) get hacked, and phony emails get sent by the hacker. And since the sender is in your con-tact list, they still get through to your mailbox.

I wanted to simulate one of those crappy emails. But instead of using the typical mails like “Hey, I’ve just found an amazing picture of us, check it at this link”, I just sent the word “ERROR” to my entire contact list (I’ve filtered some addresses out), risking my email-address will also end up in the spam-bin of all my accounts. This is the email I sent:

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Immediately after sending the email, it became clear a lot of email addresses in my account list were out of use:

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Only a few of many replied. Some didn’t understand what was going on, but others saw it as an oppor-tunity to start a con-versation (which was pretty nice actually since I hadn’t seen/spoken to these peo-ple for a long time).

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Apparently it wasn’t that good of an idea to send fake spam emails; hot-mail thinks I’m suspicious and blocked my account… Gladly I was able to reset it.

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no error here. hope you are fine! i am in london since sept btw, studying ani-mation, finally. ;)all the bestmirjam

wat bedoel je?

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error?probleem met iets?x

w h a t ?

wtf?

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AND ERROR TO YOUMY DEAR

AND ERROR TO YOUMY DEAR

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Google Translate

Inspired by the image on the left, I wanted to do something with Google Translate. So I decided to copy the text explaining 404 on the Dutch Wikipedia, and keep on translating from Dutch to another language, take that trans-lation and translate it again to yet another language, and so on, using every language you can use on Google Translate. And then back to Dutch. Well, kind of Dutch.

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Google Translated to Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bul-garian, Catalan, Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified), Danish, German, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, Gujanti, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindu, Hungarian, Irish, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Yiddisch, Korean, Croatian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedo-nian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Ukranian, Persian, Polish, Portugese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Taga-log, Tamil, Thai, Czech, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Byelorussian and Swedish.

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The original piece of text, with the result on the next page:

“De foutmelding Error 404 of Not Found (niet gevonden) is een van de HTTP-statuscodes. Door linkrot, het fenomeen waarbij aangeklikte links niet meer werken, verschijnt deze foutmelding op het computerscherm. Sommige webhostingproviders laten de mensen (met hun gebruikersac-count) hun eigen 404-pagina’s maken.”

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404 - Wrong (geen) en dan, als een directeur of een goede belasting HTTP-fout () vanArmenië, 404 ondersteunt hen.

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404 - Wrong (geen) en dan, als een directeur of een goede belasting HTTP-fout () vanArmenië, 404 ondersteunt hen.

Find the mistake on my previousportfolio website:

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Personal

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