Here are 16 actual error messages seen on the computer screens in Japan.
Some are written in Haiku. I think they're better than, "Your computer has performed an illegal operation."
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Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
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Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
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Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
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Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
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The Web site you seek cannot be located, but countless more exist.
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A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone.
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Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred?
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You step in the stream, but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
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Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will.
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Having been erased, The document you're seeking must now be retyped.
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
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Screen.
Mind.
Both are blank
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