The global COVID-19 pandemic significantly boosted the importance of digital communications. Without such digital resources that allow people to hold virtual meetings and other events, many companies would have struggled to maintain operations during the pandemic. This has helped make “Zoom” a digital communications buzzword and led to an expansion of digital communications and virtual meeting capabilities.

The global COVID-19 pandemic has given a huge boost to social media and has made social media platforms even more instrumental for sharing information. Meanwhile, real-time in-person communications between and among people has declined considerably. While the pandemic continues to rage on, personal interactions are becoming more common as governments lift lockdowns and people edge towards a return to normalcy.

Anyone who has spent time surfing the web has likely received a “404 Not Found” error message when trying to access a website that no longer exists or by trying to connect with a website with a broken or dead link. This Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) status code is one of dozens used to manage and track the application of HTTP. Website servers issue such status codes when responding to a request from a client for website access or other action.