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The original Blue Screen of Death (here seen in the Italian edition of Windows NT 3.51) first appeared in Windows NT 3.1. The first Blue Screen of Death appeared in Windows NT 3.1 [5] (the first version of the Windows NT family, released in 1993), and later appeared on all Windows operating systems released afterwards.
Screenshot of Wikipedia.org on April 2, 2009 using Chrome "3-D". Note the red/blue glasses toggle switch at the top of the browser. A version of Google Chrome was offered rendering web pages in Anaglyph 3D, "powered" by CADIE. A 3D effect was actually possible with this browser, but it only made the window appear to be sunken into the monitor.
A kernel panic screen (either text overwritten on the screen in older versions, or simplified to a reboot message in more recent versions) replaces the bomb symbol but appears less often due to the radically different system architecture.
Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Residents of MIT's Simmons Hall collaborated to make a smiley face on the building's facade, December 8, 2002. Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are practical jokes and pranks meant to prominently demonstrate technical aptitude and cleverness, and/or to commemorate popular ...
October: American Express introduces the "Blue" smart card, the industry's first chip-based credit card in the US. November 17: A hacker interviewed by Hilly Rose during the radio show Coast to Coast AM (then hosted by Art Bell) exposes a plot by al-Qaeda to derail Amtrak trains.
At the annual Harvard–Yale football game on November 20, 2004, Yale students, costumed as a Harvard "pep squad", distributed placards to Harvard fans for a card stunt. When the fans raised the placards together, they read "We Suck". The practical joke was conceived of and coordinated by Michael Kai and David Aulicino, two Yale students in the ...
Prank call. A prank call (also known as a crank call or a hoax call or a goof call) is a telephone call intended by the caller as a practical joke played on the person answering. It is often a type of nuisance call. It can be illegal under certain circumstances. Recordings of prank phone calls became a staple of the obscure and amusing cassette ...
Off-color humor. Off-color humor (also known as vulgar humor, crude humor, or shock humor) is humor that deals with topics that may be considered to be in poor taste or vulgar. Many comedic genres (including jokes, prose, poems, black comedy, blue comedy, insult comedy, cringe comedy and skits) may incorporate "off-color" elements.