Haven't we all faced this problem at some time or the other, Poornima? Error messages of all kinds - DNS Error, Error 404 Not Found, or Server Busy?

The DNS Error mean that the site you are looking for cannot be found. This could mean that the server or the computer that hosts the site could be temporarily off or under repair. The 404 Error means that the site or link that you are looking for was there once, but has been since removed, probably for good.

I think it would be quite correct to state that as long as computers and the Internet have existed, errors have been an integral part of the whole picture. But why do these errors occur? There are different reasons for this and both Bubbles and me discovered that there are whole Web sites that exist only for the purpose of explaining them.

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WEB RESOURCES:

This article, 'The biggest problem with the Web is the 404 Error' talks about how frequent this error has become and some of the causes for this.

The purpose of this error is basically to alert browsers that the page does not exist and also to alert the Web master. A detailed explanation of what this error really means can be found here.

I am sure many of you must have noticed that some 404 Error pages are designed differently. You can design the 404 Error page of your site to suit you and Plinko tells you how you can customise the page. Take some help to improve your current page and make that boring message into something fun.

That's not the end of errors. There are a host of others - Forbidden/ Access Denied, Bad File Request, 501 Not Implemented etc. For an explanation of these errors, there are several sites that will be helpful - CNet, AOL and Earthlink.

Bubbles want to put in his bit - a list of fun error messages and this one is his favourite: "Your mouse is not working, please click here to acknowledge."