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| date = April 1, 2008 | | date = April 1, 2008 | ||
| title = Not Found | | title = Not Found | ||
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | There is no xkcd comic numbered 404. Randall did not skip a day, however; he put [[405: Journal 3|405]] up on April 2 (2008), which leads some to see the 404 as an April Fool's joke. | |
− | + | "404" is the HTTP Response Code for "{{w|HTTP 404|Not Found}}". [[Randall]] deliberately skipped comic number 404 in xkcd. Therefore, when people go to {{xkcd|404}} they get a "404 Not Found" error page. (This does not work in all browsers. In newer versions of Internet Explorer a message about the link being broken occurs without the 404 code.) | |
− | + | [[Randall]] has stated that he considers 404 [http://plus.google.com/111588569124648292310/posts/j6w9DkYApya an official, actual comic, albeit a rather avant-garde one], and that for a time he made it possible to find it using the "random" button on xkcd.com. | |
− | It | + | It may seem like a random coincidence that {{xkcd|403}} came out the day before April 1st 2008. And for sure it must have been by chance that it would come out close to that date when Randall began posting on xkcd. But when Randall noticed this fact, at some point prior to that date, he would, however, have had a chance to influence the release date. In November 2007, less than half a year before this April 1st, he released the [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:1337 1337 series] over five consecutive days. That would have moved the release date of 403 from Friday the 4th of April to the Monday it was actually released - making it possible to skip comic 404 as if it came out on April 1st without skipping a comic on a normal release day. There was at least one other series in 2007 to use all five day of a week ([http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Choices Choices]), so maybe he had this planned for a long time? |
− | + | It is perhaps an interesting point that the very next comic, {{xkcd|405}} includes the line "So, you found me after all." | |
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
− | The web comic Comic JK made [ | + | *The web comic Comic JK made this spoof of this missing comic in total xkcd style: |
+ | **The [http://comicjk.com/comic.php/404 comic 404] that could have been. | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:April fools' comics]] | [[Category:April fools' comics]] | ||
[[Category:No title text]] | [[Category:No title text]] |