The Financial Times’ 404 page

Re:The Financial Times’ 404 page by joecool1029 on Sunday October 24, 2021 @03:30PM (#28981120)

The old bloomberg 404 from some years ago was pretty good: https://web.archive.org/web/20160311202451/http://www.bloomb...

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Re:The Financial Times’ 404 page by aspenmayer on Sunday October 24, 2021 @07:04PM (#28982757)

Ironically, I’m getting an offline message from IA now.

https://twitter.com/aspenmayer/status/1452406960263942156

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Re:The Financial Times’ 404 page by mdp2021 on Sunday October 24, 2021 @04:15PM (#28981459)

I do not understand what they meant - if they intended to mean anything - with the de-composing puppet. An in-joke?

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Re:The Financial Times’ 404 page by SapporoChris on Monday October 25, 2021 @02:19AM (#28984941)

My interpretation is: The artificial construct of a man striking the computer is/was running on the computer that was struck. So the artificial construct inadvertantly destroyed itself. Perhaps implying that violence is not a good solution. An odd bit of humor, but I liked it.

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Re:The Financial Times’ 404 page by WGH_ on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:23PM (#28993920)

I understand it as a part of "crappy CGI" aesthetic.

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Re:The Financial Times’ 404 page by hoherd on Sunday October 24, 2021 @11:53PM (#28984359)

SGI used to have a random selection of crying baby faces.

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Re:The Financial Times’ 404 page by andylynch on Sunday October 24, 2021 @04:15PM (#28981454)

They used to have a bunch- this was always the best one.

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