"This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." is such an excellent error message wording if your aim is to absolutely scare the shit out of 8-year-olds on a daily basis
child me trembling in my boots fearing that windows 98 has just sent a report to the cops about something i did in putt-putt or croc or orly's draw-a-story
i thought i was gonna go to jail for the rest of my fucking life when Internet Explorer crashed while i was looking at the personal website of the Captain Underpants author
"It's now safe to turn off your computer" to overimaginative four-year-old me: "If you ever try to shut down a computer without seeing this screen, something incredibly unsafe will happen instead"
