The main purpose of software is its functionality, we know, but sometimes it’s difficult to remember that it’s been written by a real live human being. Nowhere is that more apparent than on Screenshots of Despair, a Tumblr blog that collates examples of existential bleakness from some of the applications you use every day. It’s a measure of how far we’ve come that sentences like “You have no history!” don’t even make us stop to think twice.
‘Screenshots of Despair’: terrifying messages from everyday software
Screenshots of Despair is a Tumblr blog that collates examples of existential bleakness from some of the applications you use every day.
Screenshots of Despair is a Tumblr blog that collates examples of existential bleakness from some of the applications you use every day.
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