404

404: translation

(fohr.oh.fohr)

adj.

Relating to a person who is out of touch or clueless.

"It's rather silly that teen flicks are racking up huge box office numbers and Hollywood's acting like it's some earth-shattering phenomenon. Studio execs, you're so 404."

— "Gusto," The Buffalo News, March 5, 1999

This adjective (which appeared originally in Gareth Branwyn's Jargon Watch column) comes from the following Web server error message:

404 Not Found.The requested URL was not found on this server.

This would be the Web equivalent of "the lights are on but no one's home" and other fulldeckisms: http://herbison.com/canon/.

bozon

clue stick

drool-proof paper

Hanlon's Razor

ignoranus

induhvidual

omnishambles

stupid line

Stupids

zipperhead

Insults

404: übersetzung