Error 404 — Not Found

I couldn't find the page you were looking for. It's possible it doesn't exist yet, but it's also very possible that it does exist and the link is just broken.

Troubleshooting

Did you follow a link on this website to get here? If you did, please consider contacting me and telling me exactly what link you clicked on what page that brought you here. If it's a bad link on my website, I should be able to remedy it in a jiffy, and I'll be very thankful that you found it.

Did you follow a link posted on an external website or app to get here? It's possible that I rearranged things somewhere and the path to arrive at your destination changed. Consider checking out the Masterlist (which is the main directory on the website) and seeing if you can find what you're looking for there. If you can't, please consider contacting me and telling me what you were trying to find when you encountered the error. I might be able to locate it for you.

And Something Fun!

While you're here, can I tell you something cool? Did you know that the different error codes you see online all the time-- like the iconic "Error 404" or "Error 504 Gateway Timeout"-- are parts of classes of responses (not necessarily errors)? There's not only an Error 404, but also an Error 408 and Error 403. And it gets even more interesting! The first number in the response actually tells you what kind (class) of response is being triggered.

The humble Error 404 is the most common response code, and it's an error-- it specifically means that somewhere, you've asked for something from the computer that the computer doesn't have. All 4XX errors are client-side errors; the technology, it reports, is doing fine-- it's you who has made the mistake! For example, 403 Forbidden means you're trying to access something that's private-- perhaps because you aren't logged in, or you lack sufficient administrator permissions. Either way, you're in the right place, and the computer has it, but won't serve it to you.

5XX responses are server-side issues. You, the client, are in the right spot, but the computer is having a problem. An Error 505 Internal Server Error means that the computer can't serve you whatever you're asking for at the moment. In contrast, an Error 504 Gateway Timeout means that the computer tried really hard to serve you what you were asking for, but it took too long to hear back from the other computers, and had to serve you an error instead.

There are 5 possible kinds of response codes-- 1XX, 2XX, 3XX, 4XX, and 5XX. Each of them means something different. You can learn more about the different error codes on developer.mozilla.org (or you can Google "HTTP response status codes.")

That was a fun way to spend a few minutes on an error page, eh? Maybe the real website content was the fun facts about HTTP responses we learnt along the way. (Just kidding. Please contact me and tell me what you were trying to do when you got this error so that I can try and fix it.)