Nosh.me’s Awesome 404 Error Page

We usually don’t do short video posts, but Nosh.me’s great 404 error page made us chuckle so we had to include it on the blog. A 404 error “Page not found” appears when a particular page of a website is missing and its layout is normally pretty standard. Daring Fireball’s John Gruber shared the Nosh.me 404 error page, that features a video and some unusual text, on Twitter (where you can follow .Me ;)). It reads:

Periodically, pages go missing, assets get misplaced — you should not be concerned. This is a startup, this kind of thing happens. At Nosh, we are fortunate to have a relationship with several teams of ex-special forces operatives who help us track down these missing pages. When a page on this website goes rogue — and a code 404 arises — we dispatch one of our teams to bring it back. Ideally they are able to salvage the missing page, but sometimes, if the page is truly lost, they have to take it out (resulting in the subsequent code 500 when the page gets taken down).

Regarding the page you are currently looking for, one of our teams actually did find it, but it did not want to be found and a firefight ensued. This encounter is documented above.

Alpha, Bravo, 404!

Ok… Weird for a service that helps you discover great food, but we’ll keep an open mind. Now watch the video they mention:

[vimeo width=”600″ height=”338″]http://vimeo.com/26858445[/vimeo]

Awesome! We haven’t seen such a creative 404 error page in a long time, so its great when a website or web service takes its time to produce such an original one. Now check out the behind the scenes footage of how the 404 video was made:

[vimeo width=”600″ height=”338″]http://vimeo.com/26952527[/vimeo]

If you want to know more just check out our guide on Nosh.me for the iPhone and Android and also check out the Nosh’s actual 404 page. Great work, Nosh!