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The now infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) has been around since Windows 3.1. However, by chance, this screen made an appearance back in Windows 1.0! Have we finally discovered the original origins of this beast! It's always great to reflect on how hard it was to get to devices like the Windows Phone or the iPhone. There are many causes for this error: Bad DLL's, incorrect device drivers, bad memory, damaged registry, etc. This error has become less predominant in later years. Receiving such an error now, is much more serious than it used to be in the Windows 3.1/95/98 days. Below are some of the Top 10 Blue Screen of Death images! Some of these might be fake images, unless I was to take them myself how could I be sure obviously. Enjoy!
- Blue screen of death on a subway car.
- Blue Screen of Death in New York City
- With the introduction of the x86 processor to Mac, Blue Screen of Death has finally come to Macintosh!
- Blue screen of Death at an airport.
- Fidelity gets a visit from the Blue Screen of Death.
- I hate seeing the Blue Screen of Death in airports.
- World Famous Windows 98 Blue Screen of Death. This one occurred back at COMDEX, April 20th, 1998. "So I'm just going to go ahead and plug in the new device. You'll notice that this scanner... Wow!.. Moving right along..." "That must be why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet."
- Not only are Macintosh laptops getting this great Blue Screen of Death upgrade!
- Even your public phone and Internet portal systems receive visits from the Blue Screen of Death.
- Finally.. The Original Blue Screen of Death in Windows 1.0! Although this is not the true "Blue Screen of Death", it is funny to see this happened even back in the day! The origins of the blue screen....
Bonus Blue Screen of Death Images
- New York City, Corner of 42nd street and 8th avenue
Bonus Tips and Tricks
- Did you know typing into Internet Explorer Version 4 through 7 "about:mozilla" in the address bar would cause a BSoD (well, humor me here, its just a blue screen, but still funny).
- If the above doesn't work, you are running Windows XP SP2, so type: "res://mshtml.dll/about.moz" and you will get it!
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You really need to find the Gates presentation when his demo machine BSoDs. That has to be a top 10.
Posted by: Hagrin | October 13, 2006 at 11:49 AM
haha!
I tryed to withdraw money from an atm and i used the incorect pin. so i pressed all the buttons as fast as i could and it crashed haha. not windows but still. got a pic of the screen on my phone :D
Posted by: James H | October 13, 2006 at 11:58 AM
BSOD is Teh Win hahah arr matey [-_\]
Yee missed the giant times square picture, I'll see if I can dig it up.
You also missed the BSOD t-shirt worn by large chested women!
Posted by: Atari | October 13, 2006 at 12:09 PM
Put the blue screen on my phone and then freeked my mate out. (A GEEK)
Posted by: Mobile360 | October 13, 2006 at 12:11 PM
it should be noted that a Mac doesn't get a BSOD unless its running windows
Posted by: Graeme43 | October 13, 2006 at 12:12 PM
Numbers 1 and 2 are not very precise... number 1 is a commuter train in Buenos Aires, Argentina (i use it every day!); and number 2 is clearly some place different from US... the cars are european brands (Ford, Renault, etc) plus license plates seem european too!
Posted by: Fred | October 13, 2006 at 12:14 PM
I once saw a Blue Screen of death in Walmart on the Self-service checkout registers... you know, where you scan your own food.
Posted by: Mark Starr | October 13, 2006 at 12:15 PM
here is the scoop
when i see these types of post s it tells me one thing
the person who posted the topic and the people who had the blue screen have no clue on how to install device drivers correctly
lets say this much, it does not say much about your intelect
Posted by: nobody | October 13, 2006 at 12:16 PM
Funny stuff, nice collecton :)
Posted by: _asais | October 13, 2006 at 12:17 PM
I'm pretty sure #7 is when they are demo-ing the USB functionality of Windows 98, not 95... If I remember correctly the words out of the guy on the left's mouth were "You'll notice that this scanner will... woooaaahhhh"... *crowd bursts out laughing*
Posted by: John | October 13, 2006 at 12:21 PM
...make that the guy on the right.
The 'guy' on the left is Bill
Posted by: John | October 13, 2006 at 12:22 PM
Anybody can post a comment here. Illiterates, especially.
Posted by: anybody | October 13, 2006 at 12:33 PM
There's also this classic BSOD, which might be the world's largest.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lhl/1418448/
Posted by: Brandon | October 13, 2006 at 12:44 PM
#Fred: Hah, you're righ, I use it everyday too! :-)
Posted by: Diego | October 13, 2006 at 12:45 PM
OMFG, that's so funny.
Windows runs on many, many, many types of hardware and we saw some bugs. That's so funny!
I should buy a Mac because even though the Mac OS only runs on one type of hardware, it's still perfect in every way and it never even crashes, ever!
Posted by: Wayne | October 13, 2006 at 12:46 PM
Here's a big one in my neighborhood - soho, nyc:
Posted by: DRoss | October 13, 2006 at 12:56 PM
Mac's Don't get BSOD Unless it's Windows that is crashing... get it right
Posted by: Joe Schmoe | October 13, 2006 at 12:56 PM
Cant post a link to an image so here is the url:
http://kenyattacheese.net/images/20050615_giantpspcrash.jpg
It's a huge sony psp on a billboard.
Posted by: dross | October 13, 2006 at 12:57 PM
Check this out for more bsod
http://prezwho.com/top-ten-blue-screen-of-death-in-public-places
Posted by: Zerp | October 13, 2006 at 12:57 PM
Nice photoshop work. Most of those scenarios can't happen as they don't all run Windows. The scrolling marquee would not have displayed that message. It simply wouldn't have worked. The host computer may have blue screened though. Funny though.
Posted by: Anon | October 13, 2006 at 12:59 PM
#2 is not New York. Look at the traffic signs.
Posted by: WTF | October 13, 2006 at 01:06 PM
@Graeme43:
Thank you for the information. I never would have guessed!
This just in: Computers are on the Internet now.
Posted by: gnarbuckets | October 13, 2006 at 01:11 PM
#2 is not NYC, but probably in France where "Grimonprez Tranports" (green semi-tractor in traffic) is based - plus the European traffic signs as "WTF" pointed out.
Posted by: jakyll | October 13, 2006 at 01:41 PM
They're are all fake you morons! How can a MAC have a blue screen?
Wake the hell up before you post crap and waste my time.
Posted by: fake | October 13, 2006 at 02:04 PM
Мухахаха
Posted by: AS | October 13, 2006 at 02:05 PM