Did you ever ask yourself, what the number 404 actually means?

We too, so we Googled it and actually found an interesting story. In short, the 404 error message was inspired by the room 404 at CERN in Switzerland, where scientists worked on developing the World Wide Web.

So yes… where were we? Oh. You were looking for something and ended here. Right. Well. We don’t know what to do now either. Maybe try again?

If you find yourself reading the story about room 404 again, you may want to contact us and tell us what you are looking for. If it’s the whole story on the history of the 404 error message just Google it and you might end up reading the same Medium article we did.