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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by echelon on Sunday December 28, 2025 @10:00AM (#46411532)
Atlanta is frequently referred to as "the 404" due to it being one of our area codes for calling.

April 4th is an informal city holiday, "404 day".

Lots of artists and companies make "404" branded stuff, and you generally see the number all over the city:

https://mondaynightbrewing.com/beer/404-atlanta-lager/

https://sneakernews.com/2025/03/21/adidas-superstar-404-day-...

https://x.com/kodakk6000/status/1775929898390978721

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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by Aboutplants on Sunday December 28, 2025 @11:16AM (#46412102)
412 is the area code for Pittsburgh and is all over the place with branding and slogans. Area codes in general are a common signifier within communities and the population. It’s always neat to see locals rep their area codes as advertisement or branding, I like it
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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by SoftTalker on Sunday December 28, 2025 @11:23AM (#46412161)
Anachronistic though, as area codes don't really mean anything anymore in the era of mobile phones.
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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by cman1444 on Sunday December 28, 2025 @10:14AM (#46411642)
Doesn't this happen for lots of area codes? 305 for Miami in particular as Mr. Pitbull likes to remind us.
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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by ZeWaka on Sunday December 28, 2025 @10:32AM (#46411763)
Yep. 808 is synonymous with Hawaii, since the whole state uses just that area code.
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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by triyambakam on Sunday December 28, 2025 @01:33PM (#46413285)
"808 all day" as an example
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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by Vincent_Yan404 on Monday December 29, 2025 @12:29AM (#46417767)
Wow It's amazing,I really don't know this before.Thanks for sharing!
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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by astrange on Monday December 29, 2025 @01:19AM (#46417957)
I was surprised moving from Atlanta to San Jose that they have very similar area codes (404 408).

I was extra surprised that there's a chain of crepe places called "Atlanta Crazy Crepes" which as far as I can tell are located only in Akihabara in Tokyo and Eastridge Mall in SJ.

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