The history of 404
In an office on the fourth floor (room 404), they placed the World Wide
Web's central database: any request for a file was routed to that
office, where two or three people would manually locate the requested
files and transfer them, over the network, to the person who made that
request.
When the database started to grow, and the people at CERN realised that
they were able to retrieve documents other than their own
research-papers, not only the number of requests grew, but also the
number of requests that could not be fulfilled, usually because the
person who requested a file typed in the wrong name for that file. Soon
these faulty requests were answered with a standard message: 'Room 404:
file not found'.
Later, when these processes were automated and people could directly
query the database, the messageID's for error messages remained linked
to the physical location the process took place: '404: file not
found'.
clipped from www.room404.com
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