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If making friends in real-life was similar to the Facebook process, then it might look something like this. Continue reading to watch.

Watch and see that they've got represented it perfectly, from the initial "poke" right down to graffiti on your wall.

Coming across an HTTP 404 (not found) error is never a good thing when surfing the internet, but these webmasters have taken the extra step and put up some creative text/graphics to weather the storm. Click here for first picture in gallery.

When you end up following a dead or incorrect link or mistype a URL, you are likely to end up on a 404 error page. It doesn’t have to be a bad experience, though

Google has just updated their Japanese homepage with tabs pointing to their most popular applications (GMail, YouTube, News, Maps, etc.). Continue reading for the poll.

The four new tabs are named (approximately) "Featured," including Gmail, YouTube, News, Maps and Transit, "Various search," that hosts links to Image Search, Blog Search, Books and Google Desktop, "Useful tool," with Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Reader and Google Toolbar and, finally, "More enjoyable," and YouTube once again, Picasa, Blogger and Google Earth

In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee used a NeXTcube to build the world's first web server. Later that year, he developed the first working browser and web pages. Continue reading for a short news segment on NeXT computers. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Users without internet access for whatever reason, can use this snail mail version of Google Search, and it only takes 4-6 weeks to get the results. Fortunately, this service only exists in the mind of a miserable, internet-less person.

(Thanks, Brian L.)

Not being able to access an important website or page is always a bummer, but these webmasters decided to make things a little more interesting, by injecting humor into the 404 error page. Click here for more.

(Thanks, Jake)

Supposedly an internet power user by the name of Eric Tipton caused the entire internet to crash, leading to lost data, boredom, and more. Continue reading for the news segment.

This promotional video from 1994 does beg one question though. If this company was trying to promote itself, why does it tell viewers to email for more information at the end?

I used the lynx text based browser to search for a video on youtube, then I dug through the source found the keys required to build a request to download the desired video. Once downloaded I invoked the shell from lynx to launch mplayer to play the downloaded video