Blue Screen of Death Appears at Olympics

Anyone who has ever touched a Windows PC can tell you about how frustrating it is to encounter the Blue Screen of Death. Now just imagine that happening on the global stage.

In case you haven't yet heard, that's exactly what happened during the Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony. While the Olympic flame was being lit, the familiar blue screen with white text was projected around the Bird's Nest.

Yup, you guessed it: The PC used to project the images around the stadium apparently ran into some problems, according to our friends at Gizmodo. One Gizmodo reader points out that the blue screen also makes a brief appearance on the NBC broadcast. Of all the high technology on display during the Opening Ceremony, isn't it ironic that something so mundane as a PC was the one thing that failed?

And no, there is no evidence that Gizmodo was behind this despite their track record for pranks.

(Images courtesy of Gizmodo)

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