Peter Flynn caused the first 404
Now that’s a great bit of web trivia :) “[UCC’s] first webmaster was the first person to ever break a link on the web, when he moved the location of a webpage on UCC’s servers without telling TimBL. Such a change resulted in the need to error-handle such an occurrence, and the 404 was born”
(tags: 404 history http web peter-flynn ucc irish-web trivia)
Credit reference agency Equifax fined for security breach
The ICO fines Equifax £500K, the maximum amount possible under the old Data Protection Act (via Privacy Kit)
(tags: via:privacy-kit ico equifax privacy data-protection uk penalties law)
