Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page

Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page imgur.com/a/2H7HVcU...

Just got to this error page by refreshing my Gmail tab, seeing the Gmail error page, and then refreshing the error page and getting this. Never seen this posted on the Internet before, but I thought it was interesting.

yegle · a month ago

This was added in 2004. Before this change, the error message was:

> If too many of these happen, someone will be paged. If you still see this after half an hour, send mail to xxxxxxxxxxx@google.com

(For curious folks working for Hooli, the magic number is 472481)

crgk · a month ago

I’m getting an imgur error page, but it seems this post is meant to be an image of a Google error page?

I’ve reached the error page of the image of the error page for the error page. We’re too deep.

Tiberium · a month ago

Imgur really hates VPNs, and will show that bogus error page if you're not using a "nice" connection.

andrepd · a month ago

Lol, so meta.

Also: very sad, but it would be great if it was just imgur doing this; it's the whole internet.

bhaney · a month ago

Now to refresh this comment until HN randomly goes down

bryanrasmussen · a month ago

You have reached the error reply to your valued comment. Please send this comment in an email to all your relatives or a bunny will die.

xigoi · a month ago

The internet on my phone stopped working when trying to view these HN comments.

layer8 · a month ago

“We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!”

miyuru · a month ago

Mirror: https://beeimg.com/view/m8002460503/

SchwKatze · a month ago

You found the easter egg gem!

The fact that google's engineers cared about doing that it's pretty funny

henry700 · a month ago

Probably done over a decade ago. Today we wouldn't see this

pi_22by7 · a month ago

oh, for sureee

hnlmorg · a month ago

That explains why we aren’t talking about it today then.

mister_mort · a month ago

Always leave a message in "impossible" code paths, you never know who might read it in the end.

exiguus · a month ago

Error page of the error page made me smile. Somehow, this makes total sense to me. Consider a reverse proxy where the origin is down and displaying the 'real' error page is not possible because of that. Alternatively, imagine a CloudFront function or Lambda experiencing the same issue, or encountering so many redirects that it interrupts and simply shows the error page of the error page. Nonetheless, I agree that you shouldn't see this issue very often.

shanemhansen · a month ago

I had this for a reverse proxy I developed that did some transformations. At about two critical points if there was an error there was literally nothing we could do except 500 barf.

zaik · a month ago

Confuse your coworkers by telling them you "won Gmail once".

RandomBacon · a month ago

They'll just think you're going senile and politely agree, telling you to go back and surf the information superhighway.

rc_mob · a month ago

You have 7 different gmail accounts eh?

Alex3917 · a month ago

Yeah unfortunately they are tricky to get rid of once you have them. In theory I can forward the email from one account to another, but in practice it's hard to think through all the weird security issues that might arise from doing so.

dpedu · a month ago

I've got one I made as a teen, a more professional sounding mature address, one for school, two for two separate google apps domains, and one for work. They pile up over time.

Jotalea · a month ago

I have made a lot of accounts in a 5 year period:

- main account, used for anything — made in 2018

- secondary account

- personal account for 2021

- personal account for 2024

- account for parental controls

- throwaway account with random numbers and letters

- throwaway account with a purpose

- account for using on VMs

- account to share with my friend

- account for my brother

edit: fixed newlines

ChrisArchitect · a month ago

Ask HN: GCP Outage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44605732