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By: Voice User Interface Design VUI » Blog Archive » The Art (and Humor) of Error Messages

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:31:05 +0000

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By: Seth Asa

Seth Asa — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:01:26 +0000

My mother got the following error message on her Mac laptop:

“It’s Not My Fault”

Which prompted her to ask, “Well whose fault is it, then?”

I don’t know what model of Mac it was but she actually called me to tell me about this error message. And she still really likes her Mac. I dig PC’s. And, somehow, we’re still able to communicate and laugh together like civilized adults…

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:02:54 +0000

The FailWhale is actually extremely representative of Twitter issues. The birds represent users, the “ropes” are threads of conversation, and the FailWhale is the error happily dragging them down.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:44:38 +0000

If I recall, with the advent (well use) of the ps/2 port, the keyboard error became basically useless, because the system had to be turned off before plugging in the keyboard. (Not sure, it’s been quite a few years since I have used an actual ps/2 keyboard.)

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:08:02 +0000

I was told, second- or third-hand, of an error message on old TI machines, from the heart of oil country: “Shut ‘er down, Clem. She’s a-pumpin’ mud.”.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:06:20 +0000

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By: ReynaldoRiv

ReynaldoRiv — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:26:13 +0000

Don’t mean to nitpick but in the Lost in Space Error message you should have put the word gyndroid instead of android, unless of course she was what is referred to on the net as a Trap.

By: Garrett AiResearch

Garrett AiResearch — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:36:16 +0000

Am I the only idiot who typed html into this thing?

Mid 80’s Unisys @FTN compiler:

Error within an error

and

Help! I’m confused!

By: Garrett AiResearch

Garrett AiResearch — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:32:56 +0000

Mid 80’s Unisys @FTN compiler:Error within an errorandHelp! I’m confused!

By: Arroxane

Arroxane — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:20:56 +0000

You forgot one unforgettable error message:

“Malfunction: need input!”

Number Five is alive! ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Circuit_%28film%29