Subreddit collects a collection of photos of the "blue screen of death"

The publication Arstechnica drew attention to the curious subreddit with the straightforward name Public Blue Screen of Death . As you can guess, the community members share their own and found on the Internet photos of the “blue screen of death” (blue screen of death) - a critical error of the Windows operating system - on various public devices, such as information boards, billboards, electronic informants and just computers, installed where many people can see them.







When the editor of Arstechnica talked with the creator of the subddit PBSOD with the nickname Kmlkmljkl , it turned out that it did not pursue any particular purpose and was created simply because someone had not found where to post a BSOD photo, which caught my eye in some public place At best, Kmlkmljkl hopes for the arrival of new users.



There is a similar community on the Internet - a group in Flickr Public Computer Errors , but it “specializes” in general on all errors of any operating systems on any devices.

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The most famous and probably the earliest case of “public shame” with the advent of BSOD occurred back in 1998 at the presentation of Windows 98 with the participation of Bill Gates. On the stage at Comdex, Plug and Play was demonstrated: Gates' colleague Chris Kapossela tried to connect the scanner to a computer in order to show how easy and fast it would work. But at this moment Windows just crashed into the BSOD. To the credit of the then head of Microsoft, he was not taken aback and turned everything into a joke, saying that this is why sales of Windows 98 have not yet begun.