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NetPositive is a web browser for the BeOS operating system. It's famous for its haiku error messages. This page lists those messages.

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

Sites you are seeking
From your path they are fleeing
Their winter has come.

A truth found, be told
You are far from the fold, Go
Come back yet again.

Wind catches lily
Scatt'ring petals to the wind:
Your site is not found.

These three are certain:
Death, taxes, and site not found.
You, victim of one.

Ephemeral site.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

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

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

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

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

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

Bartender yells loud
Your site cannot be found, boy
Buy another drink.

Chrome megaphone barks
It's not possible to talk
Not yet anyway.

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

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

With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
The site is not found.

You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on
The site is not here.

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

Something you entered
Transcended parameters.
The site is unknown.

Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The server is down

There is a chasm
Of carbon and silicon
The server can't bridge.

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and retry.
Server shall return.

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

First snow, then silence.
This expensive server dies
So beautifully.

Seeing my great fault
Through darkening dead servers
I begin again.

Visit the home page
It can't be done easily
When the site is down.

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.

Silicon shudders
The site is down for the count
One big knockout punch.

Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
The web is like that.

The ten thousand things
How long do any persist?
The file, not there.

A file that big?
It might be very useful
But now it is gone.

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.

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

Error reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

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

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