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22
The world is a wondrous place:
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules - each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity. Here are some actual error messages from Japan. Aren’t these better than "your computer has performed an illegal operation?"
Here are just a few examples. Here is more.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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1998. Damm I’m getting old.
Wow, that’s beautiful. (More likely to make me cry than the short film, actually).