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50 Absolutely Wild Software Fails People Were Lucky Enough To Notice And Share Online (New Pics)
We love technology, we use it daily, and apparently, we can also laugh at it. The members of the subreddit r/softwaregore have been gathering the funniest software fails that have gone terribly wrong!
The group has been running since the 15th of January, 2013. Now over 1.9 million members are laughing at incidents from the weather toasting up to 1000 degrees to having -2 messages.
Whether you're a tech wizard seeking a good chuckle, or just a feed scroller, brace yourselves for a laughter-packed journey that will make you question the sanity of programmers.
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Now That's Just Hurtful
From smartphones to smart homes, coding revolutionized the way we live, work, and connect with the world around us. What stands behind a good program is the development process.
It is usually a multi-nuanced one, but looks something like this: Selecting the methodology or the roadmap of the project, gathering the requirements needed, deciding how the software will operate, building the model, and constructing the code. Then comes the primary testing phase, which then leads to the fixing of any and all defects that come up. Once all that is done, the software is deployed and further upgraded following user demands. From that point on the software is maintained to sustain the highest quality.
Do Negative Numbers Count?
Having An Existential Crisis Over Here
Programming failure sounds funny enough, but what stands behind it? Surprisingly, 75% of developers feel that new software projects will fail in the initial stage. A report by Standish Group states that 49% of new cases fail, with 47% of them being challenged and only 4% successful. After all, who stands behind the screen is just a human: “To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.” – Paul Ehrlich.
Interesting Trip To Work Today
Quite A Nice Run I Had This Evening
Female Gender Is Invalid
Pretty sure this one has been manipulated, the person most likely didn’t click either option and hit the submit button causing the error message to display, then they clicked the female option highlighting it, the error message would still display until the submit button is pressed again
Hilarious (well, not really) that men’s generally superior size and strength still seem to matter so much, like we continue to live in caves or something.
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Why isn't there a button for intersex? It is a real gender. There should also be a button for others like genderfluid,agender and non-binary
What's that got to do with anything? Apparently, men can be pregnant now, so.......
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If it wants me to be a male it better start paying me the male wages !
Goodness! I hope the programmer realized his or her mistake quickly…. I imagine the fallout would’ve been even worse of a female boss caught that mistake!
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Can someone please explain what's wrong with this one? (jk guys, calm down. That's supposed to be a joke)
Those aren't genders, those are sexes. Genders cause eyeroll, sexes are just a bathroom sign.
Well, that's different...... Donald Trump is clearly trying new tactics....
If we ever needed proof that programming is a a boy's game, here it is.
Well there can’t be only two genders, because you are neither male nor female, you’re a d******d
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Surely, you’ve seen funny software fails on Reddit, but here we have some of the most famous and costly software disasters of all time.
Burning Mars Climate Orbiter. In 1998, NASA launched a $125 million robotic space probe to monitor the Martian atmosphere, climate, and surface. After 286 days, it went into orbital insertion, and communication with the spacecraft was lost. The navigation pushed the orbiter too close to the Mars atmosphere where it burned and broke into pieces.
Speechn’t
My B.m.i Is Apparently Infinite
My Sim Slept While Carrying A Plate
Another software fail happened when hundreds of cancer patients got exposed to massive radiation doses. Since 2000, many hospitals across the USA used the Therac-25 medical radiation therapy device to treat people suffering from cancer. However, due to the incorrect input of radiation dosage data into the software, patients received radiation doses up to 100 times higher than the intended amount. Tragically, this error led to the loss of 10 lives and caused severe injuries to more than 20 people.
Yes You Are Train! Yes You Are
Go for it! Don't let anyone else tell you what you can be train!
I'm Pretty Sure That Lakes Aren't Supposed To Be Like That
When satellites take ground altitude measurements using binocular optical instruments (as opposed to radar), it fails for lakes and snowfields.
It Seems Like He’s Suffering From Something Called “Life”
World War III almost happened because of a software fail. As frightening as it sounds, in 1983, the Soviets believed that American missiles were attacking them. Their systems misinterpreted sunlight reflections off the tops of clouds as missile launches. Fortunately, later an officer of the Soviet Air Defense Forces identified the error and proclaimed it a false alarm.
No, I Don't Think That's A Jam Bun
App: Hey we're just sayin', if s**t hits the fan you know exactly how much energy they'll give.
Iphoneos Subtly Trying To Tell You Your Sleep Schedule Is F**ked Up
Ah Yes, I Agree Bread Kinda Is That
Even buildings collapse because of software failures. In 1978, Hartford Civic Center Coliseum crumbled from the weight of snow, costing $70 million + $20 million in damage to the local economy. The CAD programmer made a mistake in the design of the coliseum by incorrectly assuming that the roof supports would only experience pure compression. Additionally, the computer model indicated that all the top chords received lateral bracing, but only the interior frame met the criteria.
I'm Really Alerted After This
":/" In "Http://" Got Replaced With A Smiley
Half Life Corrupted My Screenshot And Created Some Metal Album Cover Material
As we gaze into the future, a few upcoming trends are likely to happen in software development.
Artificial intelligence has been a hot topic for some time now. We can expect it to be more common in software development, like creating better applications and helping with data analysis and forecasting.
Another interesting future trend will be the 'Internet of things'. This basically means a network of 'things' - connecting everything by exchanging sensor data between them. Examples could be: smartphones, cars, household appliances, and industrial machinery.
Finally, Virtual reality. It is already being used in gaming, education, and entertainment. In the future, we can also expect this technology to become more common in software development. It will help simulate environments and test products in real time.
Alternate Route
Failed Successfully
I remember when I was a kid my drama teacher told me if I ever messed up on stage I should still "fail fantastically".
Awfully Specific
As amusing as r/softwaregore is, the subreddit serves as a reminder of all the challenges developers face, and if anything, it makes us appreciate them even more. Software is both: or friend and an enemy, the coding just decide us think which is which.
2020 Didn't End In Romania
Damn Forgot To Update My Graphics Card Driver For The Last 78 Years My Bad
This Planetarium's Computer Crashed
Ah Yes, A Blue Box
The Emoji Looks As Confused As I Am
Just... Don't Go There
Memojis Be Like…
My Pizza Is Coming From Another Continent Lmao
I Wonder What Whould Happen
Ahh Yes 24/7
My Package Had A Meltdown
Travel Method Saves Time As Well!
My PC Started Crashing All Around And My Mouse Cursor Started Duplicating So I Drew A House With It
It gives 8th grade continuous line drawing art project (in the best way possible, of course :))
This Is My Clock Now
My First Ever Barefoot Run
Earth, Wind, And A Chance Of Scattered Showers
Greek Architecture
Mr Stark I Don’t Feel So Good
Well... Kudos To The Devs !!!
Guess That’s A Good Error Code Uplay
*phone Explodes*
So... Do They Pay Me?
Just My Casual Morning Run
Yes, I Got Successfully $0
My Phone Thinks It's Running On Nothing But Storage
Where Can I Buy
I Think Windows 11 Is Trying To Say Teams Is Running
My Fps Counter Decided It Wanted Attention
iOS Is Making One Of My Memojis Do Blackface
Note: this post originally had 84 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
WW3 did not almost happen because of a software fail as the author incorrectly stated. The software worked fine. It was the infrared detectors that were so sensitive that they picked up reflections from the clouds. It had nothing to do with software and everything to do with proper interpretation of the information by Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov. He knew the system and knew the Americans would not launch missiles that way. The software worked as it was designed. In the future they used more satellites to verify alarms.
WW3 did not almost happen because of a software fail as the author incorrectly stated. The software worked fine. It was the infrared detectors that were so sensitive that they picked up reflections from the clouds. It had nothing to do with software and everything to do with proper interpretation of the information by Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov. He knew the system and knew the Americans would not launch missiles that way. The software worked as it was designed. In the future they used more satellites to verify alarms.
