30 Computer "Error" Messages You Never Want to See

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30 Computer "Error" Messages You Never Want to See

by Evan Shamoon, posted Mar 27th 2008 at 9:06AM

As the result of its recent contest, the premise of which was asking users to Photoshop together "some error messages that nobody wants to see, ever," Cracked.com has compiled a list of the funniest (non-existent) error messages you won't ever see, ever.

There's quite a bit cussing, but not nearly as much as when our computer gives us a real error message.

Oh, and they forgot our favorite (real) error message of all time. See above for details.

From Cracked

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