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by omoikane 1023 days ago
> picture of a cat

I couldn't find this elusive picture of a cat on archive.org, but I found this dog instead:

https://web.archive.org/web/20030113144310/https://www.amazo...

June 2016 appears to be when Amazon adopted the current error pages with the large dog images.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160612232820/http://www.amazon...

2 comments

Wow, now that is a screenshot full of nostalgia... Nice find.
Thanks to both of you for this heartwarming bit. How do you go about finding something like that?
Quite manually, actually. I ran an image search on DDG for "Amazon 404 cat" and looked through the results for a kid's drawing.
I really like the look of that browser, which is it? Netscape?
That’s the one!
I misremembered the dog, it looks like they first replaced it with a ?⃝ icon. A later snapshot has the image name[0] but not the image[1].

mastry found a screenshot of the image in his sibling reply.

0 - http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/x-locale/common/k...

1 - https://web.archive.org/web/20071030172825/http://www.amazon...