Chances are, if you’ve never hit a 404 page, you’ve probably never used the internet. The concept is simple: If a client computer requests a URL that the server can’t resolve, the server responds with the ‘404 Not Found’ response – or in other words “Yes, I’m here, but I can’t find the item you requested”. While the 404 was born as a simple necessity of the HTTP protocol, a lot of user experience
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