Update: Not sure if it was this post, or someone else who may have emailed and/or someone at the W3C who took notice of the multiple 404’s being logged, but regardless of the reason, it seems this has now been fixed.

[Original Post]
So maybe I’m missing some sort of intended joke by Tim Berners-Lee, but in doing some brush-up reading on URI’s (doing some work in the fragment identifier space at the moment, so wanted to quickly refresh on a few things to ensure I wasn’t abusing or misusing the aforementioned identifier inside of an a/@href attribute) I came across the ‘See also’ section of TimBL’s ‘Axioms of Web architecture’,

Univeral Resource Identifiers — Axioms of Web architecture

See also

In clicking through to the Hall of Flame I was greeted with,

W3CSorry, Not Found.


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To be honest, I don’t remember ever clicking on this link in the past, so for all I know this was really the intended purpose, using poetic mirroring to reflect an all inclusive, dynamic snapshot of HoF inductees.[1] Either that, or as the title suggests, the Hall of Flame URI jusn’t wasn’t cool enough?

Don’t know, but I got a laugh out of the above, so seemed worth sharing in case you get one too. (you can never find too many reasons to laugh, right? :D)

Enjoy your dev days, everyone!
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[1] In particular it’s the description after the ‘HoF’ link from above that causes me to believe this was intentional: “how not to do it“.