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by naringas 3558 days ago
I get an HTTP 404 not found

>The requested URL /fourten was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

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Unless I open the url with chrome.

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE OF THE OPEN INTERNET /s

This is strangely true.
Are you in the US? Google has this terrible system where they "geo IP" then return nonsensical results.

Travel with an Android phone, and watch the Play Store go bilingual, mostly in English, with random parts showing up in e.g. Spanish.

I got that 404 several times with firefox and none with chrome.

The redirect to madeby.google.com works now, I wonder what happened...

I still get the 404... However, is there a typo in the title or did they do it on purpose?

<title>Error 404 (Not Found)!!1</title>

Back in the day, no link on a google domain that pointed to a google domain was a 404 link. That's right, zero 404s, site wide.

So the 404 page was pretty much only seen by IT folk--people who would type in their own URLs instead of clicking links...

And those people, the people who type a lot... had probably seen the old meme in which the trailing ! in a string of !!! is replaced by a 1, as would happen if you were typing quickly and let go of shift a little early...

They did that to be cute!!!1