You may read that these are genuine Japanese Windows error messages. Well they aren't really (
Snopes) but they are amusing nonetheless. They have been around for a good while but just in case you haven't read them:
- Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
- The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
- Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
- Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
- Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
- Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
- First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
- With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
- The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao-until
You bring fresh toner.
- Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
- A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
- Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
- You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
- Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
- Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
- Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.