Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) (1987)

Thank god I’m a Mac user. Although we have a similar blue screen of death, except it’s lighter, and much less evil. It still manages to conjure a “****” out of you though. And this is a definite meme, I’ll find some pictures :P

@Alucard:
I dunno, if you’re in the middle of something important, the reaction is about the same as a BSoD.

And, this is a meme, imho.

Did my Fake/Funny Error Messages entry inspire you to document this, or was it just coincidence?

Anyways, yes. This is definitely a meme. It needs just a little moar info though.

@Shadow
Yeah, hence my saying: It still manages to conjure a **** out of you. But yeah. :P

@Jostin
Lol, forgot about that. Maybe they should be pooled together? Although I’m not sure how…

Believe or not it wasn`t inspired, i was thinking of submitting this wekks ago but only today i got the time to do so

@ Alucard

There’s no point in combining the two since they’re both used differently. The BSOD is used as a form of an image macro and it’s the real deal while the Fake Error Messages are nowadays used as a form of exploitable and, like it says in its name, are fake.

@F3lip3Almeida

I see. I just thought that since this appeared a day after I submitted my entry that I made you remembered about this meme. For me, it was actually like that with the Error Messages and the LOLgraphs. Don’t ask me how the LOLgraphs reminded me of the meme, they just did.

Looks like I’ve been proven wrong yet again. I’ve found several examples of the meme being used as an exploitable, therefore, I think it can be sub-memed under the FEM entry.

bsod ftw!!!
please confirm.

I was reading a TechNet article on the Blue Screen of Death, and the first error code listed was “DIVIDE_BY_ZERO_ERROR”.
Here’s the description:
“This error is caused by an application trying to divide by zero.[…]”

Better the BSoD than the end of the universe, I’d say.

This article lacks an origin, a spread, and more info about the BSOD and its uses as a common internet error joke (or what some of us would call a meme). This article needs some serious reworking.

+1 Work on it

Agreed. Decide when work put in.

That BSOD, that’s just about as bad as Candlejack, but at least on a mac I don’t have

The thought of BSoD really helps Linux and Mac users sleep at night.

Don’t computer-esque devices have some form of this? Like the xboxes RROD?

@Goomba

If Mac can play Touhou, then it is comfy…

i just built a new computer and put windows 7 on it. I know that most of you say that out off all of the Windows OS that XP is the most dependable. But I am just going to give it a try.

@Alucard

One time I was video chatting and it kernel paniced (the macs BSOD) and it got a omgwtf, and a LOL! out of me `cus the sound that was playing was “blblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblblbl”.

Anyone else remember the BSOD cameo from Halo 2?

WAC

A total FU exception has occurred at your location. All system functionality has been terminated.
-To run power cycles of the system, press any key.
-If the system does not run power cycles, proceed to hit your head against the keypad and scream like a little girl.
-To contact tech support, press any other key.
Press any key to continue.

Here’s a curious question. Did the BSOD inspire the “of Death” meme, or was the BSOD a spawn from the “of Death” meme? My guess is that “of Death” came before Microsoft created the blue screen, but I’ve not seen the origins surrounding “of Death”. I just know my friends enjoy tacking on “of Death” to anything to make it sound more sinister and funny.