How OP probably felt:

I had this weird syncronisticity a few years back where at least once a week I'd look at the time it it'd be 4:04. I'd often say "404: Time not found" and literally nobody ever got it so I started just saying it in my head instead.

That joke was 403

That's why I prefer to hold meetings in room 200. That way everyone finds the room without even having to read the number.

C'mon buddy. You need to give these jokes a REST

If it helps, it's the only thing I think of wherever I encounter it, bus lines, taxi numbers, number plates, street numbers, you name it.

So, yeah, I think it's funny.

I refrained from using that joke with my wife as we walked to our hotel room 404 as I knew she wouldn’t get it and would think I was pathetic. 😄

Hopefully your gf doesn't give you status code 416

We have a Highway 404 in Ontario. I've made a similar joke as OP couple of times and noone laughed once.

Insert HTTP Cats reference here

Should we tell the real story?

Those friends were probably in room 420

I would have gotten the joke, but probably not laughed.

I would have laughed my ass off.

But I'm a teapot!

I have made this joke about atlanta area codes in phone numbers a few times, rarely lands.

That is 100% comedy gold.

I would have happily told your to 302 see other meeting room.

I'da told him: "I walked into here and couldn't see a thing so I opened this one."

We had a costume contest at work and the room voted for the guy who wrote "404 costume not found" with sharpie on a white T-shirt. People went full out cosplay, but the gen pop rewarded the slacker. Lost some faith that day

Depends on your friends I guess?

The joke might have landed if the hotel name was Safari or Chrome.

People who make bad jokes often assume other people don't get them when in reality they're just unfunny

Reminds me of the hyper teapot control protocol.