Attention programmers… This is NOT how you make a useful error message that helps the user address the problem or at least gives them something useful to work with on Google:
How not to produce a useful error message
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My all time fave is the old Apple message “An error has occurred because an error has occurred”.
I am upset this site has closed !
https://web.archive.org/web/20181020091024/http://errorwear.com/
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I like the Guru Meditation numbers on the Commodore Amiga.
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how bout the old Windows “Illegal Operation” messages, scaring old people half to death that the feds would come knocking! Had a tough time getting grandma to try using her PC again after one of these 
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I love this whole thread! 
Some of these, like the “Something Happened,” it’s hard to believe they’re real! LOL!
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One of the old Winamp devs put a guru meditation in as the error window if a plugin crashed. possibly the modern skin plugin.
Opera blogs used to show a guru meditation error and an ASCII Buddha if the page was down.
Here is a message from my win10 PC.
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I remember that very well!!!
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The best fictional error is from StrongBad’s emails:
Since the original version requires flash, here is the next best thing:
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I remember the IMFart error from the AOL software.
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