20 June 2009, 19:02 | #1 |
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The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time
http://technologizer.com/2008/09/18/errormessage/
"Guru Meditation" from the Amiga makes it into the list No prizes for guessing what's number one... |
20 June 2009, 19:10 | #2 |
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Cool list!
Very nerdy and geeky, me likes Thanks DD! |
20 June 2009, 19:16 | #3 |
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/me likes 'Does not compute' (should put that as the caption in my error messages...)
Nice find DD P.S. : Cool pictures for #1 |
20 June 2009, 19:58 | #4 |
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Anyone who's used lotus notes will love "Invalid or nonexistant document" which can pop up whenever you try to do, well, anything.
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20 June 2009, 20:00 | #5 |
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@rare_j: I don't remember that in Lotus 3, when does that happen?
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20 June 2009, 21:10 | #6 |
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I thought the best Mac one would have made an appearance.
"An error has occured because an error has occured" |
20 June 2009, 21:14 | #7 |
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Mmm, that one is the best one of all... remember it fondly, even though I never used a Mac.... just that it's a well known error.... and still hardly anyone mentions it.
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20 June 2009, 21:23 | #8 |
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They should include also bombs from Atari ST.
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21 June 2009, 09:31 | #9 |
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"Read Error B"
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21 June 2009, 14:02 | #10 |
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21 June 2009, 14:03 | #11 |
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I smiled when I saw "does not compute."
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21 June 2009, 15:21 | #12 |
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HAH! What a menagerie of frustrations...
Well, I guess it was inevitable that the winner would indeed be the winner... Kind of funny that Red Ring of Death is now so famous that it's on the list, since it's not a software-error, like most of the others, but a PURE HARDWARE error. 0_0 |
21 June 2009, 16:16 | #13 |
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I would have expected to see Division by Zero, Syntax Error, OUT OF MEMORY - those are classic... but the worst one I've ever seen in my life is called "Checksum error on block xxxx"
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21 June 2009, 16:42 | #14 |
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Ah, happy memories! Thanks DD
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21 June 2009, 20:57 | #15 |
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I used to love Keyboard Error or no keyboard present - press f1 to continue!
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03 July 2009, 15:26 | #16 |
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Syntax Error from the C64 for me, as I was a fairly handy BASIC programmer in the day...
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03 July 2009, 16:05 | #18 |
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But should that one really count? From what I've seen on that page, this error message was only from movies, like Lost in Space. It's not a real error message...... or does it exist on real-non-fictional computers? If not, it shouldn't really be on the list imo.
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11 July 2009, 03:54 | #19 |
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Personally I witnessed "Volume XXXX has a read/write error" quite often during the good old Amiga years.
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I once had the "An error occured because an error occured" message
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