• Michael R (unregistered)

    I had to check about the 502 Whisky and to my surprise there is in fact a whole Whisky range. WTF? I wonder if they are just taking the mick.

  • petz (unregistered)

    "The Thompson Bros Balmenach 1998 "Error 502 Bad Gateway" is a 27-year-old independent bottling, named after the technical error that crashed their site upon release."

    So that's its actual name and not a misprint. Still a WTF that a whisky release crashed their site.

  • 516052 (unregistered)

    You know what I really hate with a passion? The fact every website these days asks you to register an account and give out your email and information for data harvesting just so that you can do the most basic things. What ever happened to being able to browse the internet freely?

    Even this place did that with the sidebar. I used to love reading stuff there but no way in hell am I giving my PII to the site just for reading access.

  • (nodebb) in reply to 516052

    Even this place did that with the sidebar. I used to love reading stuff there but no way in hell am I giving my PII to the site just for reading access.

    If you mean the forum here, it was done because bots were overloading the server with their scraping.

  • (nodebb)

    As always, ServiceNow is The Real WTF.

  • 516052 (unregistered) in reply to Dragnslcr

    All I know is that yet another website has fallen behind the dreaded loginwall.

  • (nodebb)

    Build something that finds and hard-kills the computers executing bot apps and the Internet will be your oyster, and all the world will be your cheering section.

  • (nodebb) in reply to 516052

    Use the RSS feed. That gives you all the articles without needing to log in or go to the side bar.

  • (nodebb) in reply to petz

    If you look at the whole label, either on the auction web site or their own web site, you'll see that there are browser tabs at the top of the label.

  • (nodebb) in reply to petz

    Back in the early days of the internet web servers weren't generally as robust - CDNs were a very new thing and most people just ran a webserver on some spare PC. Especially since httpd wasn't particularly robust.

    It's entirely possible for even a moderately busy website to suddenly keel over - and busy was generally under 1000 accesses per minute. If you were just starting out, maybe handling 10 requests a second is all your server can do. Heck, many sites got hosted on what was effectively a 56k modem link.

    The site slashdot.org was famous for keeling over websites back in the day - it was called the "slashdot effect" where if you appeared on the site, you woke up to a smoking hole in the ground where your webserver once was.

    These days the wide availability of CDNs and sites like CloudFlare basically means websites are rarely down.

    9/11 made the Internet basically unusable - all the news sites were crashed. You wanted news updates? You turned on the TV, because the Internet was effectively down. Some sites tried to host mirrors of news articles (like the aforementioned slashdot) because they were still up even under the crushing load.

    Internet infrastructure and reliability has increased tremendously since then.

  • Klimax (unregistered) in reply to jeremypnet

    Part of the joke.

    Just quick reminder: Whisky was distilled in 1998 and bottled 2025. To commemorate event in 1998, they used screenshot of modern 502 error. (Error messages looked way different if they weren't replaced by browser with their own)

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