The Iconic Fail Whale

By now I think everyone knows the Fail Whale. While Twitter was gaining in popularity it had quite a reputation of outgrowing itself and just being out of service. The fail whale, created by Yiying Lu has become just an iconic page that there is even a fan club failwhale.com

The fail whale, as a design idea, has made it OK to occasionally fail in your website. No longer is a 404 a complete catastrophe. All you need to do is create yourself a nice, fun error page to let your members know its not the end of the world. Do it right and you might just end up with your own iconic 404 page when your website grows.

As a tribute to the fail whale, here is a collection of wacky, weird and unusual interpretations of the Fail Whale image.