Maybe when we come across it, we close the page and move on without thinking about it, but behind this warning There is a very tragic story hidden here.

Why for example 202, 505 or any other number is not used in place of 404. We can start thinking!

To get into the history of the 404 Not Found warning, we have to turn the calendar to 1989.

At Gilgit Airport, Pakistan, on August 25, 1989 With a Fokker F-27 model airplane The connection of our story begins. The Fokker F-27 aircraft, with 54 passengers on board from Pakistan to Islamabad, departed on the date specified by us at 07.26.

The plane, which had been flying smoothly until 08:50, unexpectedly lost contact with the tower. The crew did not respond to telephone calls; If search teams arrive on scene immediately No trace of the plane was found.

At the end of a week-long search, the crew and passengers were listed as dead and the aircraft as missing.

“So what is the connection between this missing plane and the ‘404 not found’ warning of the Internet community? It is normal to think so. As you have guessed, the number of flights of the missing plane was 404. After the disappearance of this plane, it also appeared on the Internet. “404 Not Found” The code has been established.

Over the years, no official account of Flight 404 has been obtained. However, many of those who conducted the investigation He suspects it crashed in the Himalayas.

According to another story, 404 came into being in a very different way.

The number “404”, which originated as the number of a room at CERN (European Centre for Nuclear Research), was the first World Wide Web developers say a page cannot be found The fact that it was chosen to use it in situations is related to the emergence of 404. However, the truth of this story is unknown.

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