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The many ways websites reject you

Like humans, websites need to rest once in a while. Sometimes it’s scheduled, sometimes not.

Like humans, websites need to rest once in a while. Sometimes it’s scheduled, sometimes not.

When you pay a visit during times of slumber, or trouble, the come-back-later messages range from a blank screen, to a tangle of computer code, to a few terse words, to something artful.

Here’s a gallery of can’t-visit-now messages, collected by connoisseurs of web slumbering.

Virgin mobile message

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Verge message

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TD bank message

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Staples message

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PressDisplay message

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Instapaper message

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Dropbox message

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Coast credit union message

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CIBC message

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Chase bank message

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B.C. Hydro message

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Aeroplan message

 

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