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by bitwize 279 days ago
Steve Summit liked to tell the story of an early Mac application with a distinct UI flourish: for dialog messages indicating success, the label on the button to dismiss the dialog would be changed to "Yay!"; for error messages, it would be changed to "Damn!".

Just another item on the long list of Things Done in the 80s That We Couldn't Get Away With Today.