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  Playpens Past
  swirlythingy (15:47 4/8/2009)
  rich (17:46 4/8/2009)
    rich (17:48 4/8/2009)
 
Martin Bazley Message #110814, posted by swirlythingy at 15:47, 4/8/2009

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I am bored.

I have just been looking at the very last page of the Playpen archives.

Isn't it reassuring to know that we've come all this way since then? tongue

Astonishing how many of the links still work, too...

But I wanna know what the old Acorn Arcade 404 message was! Crybaby
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Richard Goodwin Message #110821, posted by rich at 17:46, 4/8/2009, in reply to message #110814
Rich
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I'm not sure what it was originally, but ISTR that at some point I made it a randomly-selected haiku.

from memory, it was something like...
The file is not there
Of little point is your ire
404 not found

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Richard Goodwin Message #110822, posted by rich at 17:48, 4/8/2009, in reply to message #110821
Rich
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Obviously I don't throw anything away...
sub haiku {
push @haiku, "";
push @haiku, "<nobr>That file you want -</nobr><br><nobr>\nIt might be very useful.</nobr><br><nobr>\nBut now it is gone.</nobr>\n";
push @haiku, "<nobr>Chaos reigns within.</nobr><br><nobr>\nReflect, repent, try again.</nobr><br><nobr>\nOrder shall appear</nobr>\n";
push @haiku, "<nobr>With searching comes loss</nobr><br><nobr>\nand the presence of absence;</nobr><br><nobr>\nthat file was not found</nobr>\n";
push @haiku, "<nobr>Stay the patient course</nobr><br><nobr>\nOf little worth is your ire;</nobr><br><nobr>\nthat file was not found</nobr>\n";
push @haiku, "<nobr>Yesterday it worked,</nobr><br><nobr>\ntoday it is not working;</nobr><br><nobr>\nthe Web is like that.</nobr>\n";
push @haiku, "<nobr>You step into the stream,</nobr><br><nobr>\nbut the water has moved on.</nobr><br><nobr>\nThe page is not here.</nobr>\n";
push @haiku, "<nobr>Having been erased,</nobr><br><nobr>\nthe document you're seeking</nobr><br><nobr>\nmust be retyped</nobr>\n";
push @haiku, "<nobr>Rather than a beep</nobr><br><nobr>\nor a rude error message</nobr><br><nobr>\nthese words: \"File not found\"</nobr>\n";
push @haiku, "<nobr>Linkrot rules the web -</nobr><br><nobr>\nYour bookmark is deluded!</nobr><br><nobr>\n404 not found.</nobr>\n";
$rnd = int((rand(9)) +1);
print $haiku[$rnd]
}

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