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The digital age has brought signs to life with colourful, high-definition, animated displays. Sometimes they are useful, providing information such as timetables and maps. But sometimes they can be utterly useless when the operating system fails to boot. Here are some photos I’ve been able take of electronic signs that have failed.

I wish I was able to take a photo of a road sign I noticed the other day that said, ‘Modem Disabled’, but I was driving in the rain at the time. I’ve also noticed database errors on trains, where the sign reads, ‘Change at Camberwell for Unknown Line ID [12] services’, meaning ‘Alamein’ and ‘Change for Unknown Line ID [14] services’, meaning ‘Lilydale’.

Timetable error at Richmond Station

Timetable error at Richmond Station—Windows not booting

Highpoint Shopping Centre directory screen—corrupt Windows system file error

My first Myki error, in August 2009