International holidays - International Webmaster Day (404 Day)

The fourth day of the fourth month of the year is April 4 In countries where it is customary to record the date starting with the month rather than the day (as is done in the United States of America), this day will be designated as 4/04 For the serial number of the day in the month, Americans put a zero before single-digit numbers so that there are no discrepancies There cannot be a fourteenth month in a year, so there is no zero before the April serial number Entry 4/04 was taken as the date of the unofficial holiday, Webmaster's Day The fact is that when using a web application, you can quite often see an error with status code #404 (Not found) It means that the resource that the server is accessing is missing From the point of view of a user who has not received the final product, this situation looks like another error and it is not important for him to know what its number is But for the webmaster, status code #404 is informative and means the work was poorly done That is why it is the fourth of April, and not the tenth For a server that accesses the specified address and does not find the one it is looking for, various status codes are provided If there is information that the requested page existed, but now it does not exist, error #410 (Moved, Gone) occurs This may happen not through the fault of the site builder (webmaster), but for other reasons In the early 1990s, a specialist who knew how to create and maintain websites in a viable state was, in the truest sense of the word, a multi-instrumentalist, a one-man orchestra He mastered the techniques of competent design, content, programming, administration and technical support of the site That is, all those tools that are now used by web designers, content managers, developers (aka programmers), system administrators and database administrators, as well as resource support specialists in working order Such a universal professional could easily be called the master of the situation, which is what they began to do Tim Berners-Lee, author of the “StyleGuide for online hypertext”, first introduced the term webmastering This happened in 1992, at the dawn of the Internet The word quickly came into use as being meaningful and reflecting the essence of the activity Master (master) from English has several translations, among others - master, owner, owner Accordingly, the owner of the position of a small part of the web (web in English is translated as “web”) was called the webmaster, without specifying the specification Later, with the development of the World Wide Web, the advent of more complex technologies, larger sites, a division of labor was required to increase work efficiency Separate areas of web mastering have emerged, the number of which is constantly growing But the holiday is celebrated by everyone involved in the creation of Internet resources Including web mistresses, that is, not masters, but mistresses of the position Mistress is translated from English as the female equivalent of master