7/12/2007 - Windows 98 Blue screen of death

It's hard to remember just how bad Windows 95/98/Me was. It's a wonder that so many people put up with it only because it was the most widely used operating system at the time. Booting was slow, installing drivers for peripherals was a pain, the graphical user interface would freeze for no reason, and I'm sure we've all experienced the wonderful Blue screen of death. It's cryptic messages still haunt me today.

In fact, the BSoD was so pervasive, it even made its way onto a demonstration during a keynote address by none other than Bill Gates. You would think that everything would have been rehearsed over and over again so that there would be no surprises in an important presentation. It just goes to show that nothing can prepare for the suckage that is Windows 98:



You just know that guy was in the unemployment line the very next day.