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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 line, 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 16 actual error
messages from Japan.

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The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
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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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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.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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The Window closes.
Nothing will open it now.
Everything lost.

i dont know if they really do this in Japan, just got in the email

The browser that comes with BeOS uses haiku error messages. It has some of those, and others like


Not a pretty sight
When the web dies screaming loud
The site is not found.


Morning and sorrow
404 not with us now
Lost to paradise.


The dream is shattered
The web site cannot be found
Inside the spring rain.


Click exciting link
Gossamer threads hold you back
404 not found.


Aborted effort:
The site, passed this veil of tears.
You ask way too much.


Site slips through fingers
Pulse pounding hard and frantic
Vanishing like mist.


The web site you seek
Lies beyond our perception
But others await.


Emptyness of soul
Forever aching blackness:
"Blah.com not found."


Rather than a beep
Or a rude error message,
These words: 'Site not found.'


Something you entered
Transcended parameters.
The site is unknown.


Won't you please observe
A brief moment of silence
For the dead server?


Cables have been cut
Southwest of Northeast somewhere
We are not amused.


Site is silent, yes
No voices can be heard now
The cows roll their eyes.


To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy


Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.


Server's poor response
Not quick enough for browser.
Timed out, plum blossom.


Login incorrect.
Only perfect spellers may
Enter the system.


The code was willing
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.