Janet Jackson may have been the reason your old laptop crashed so much
completemusicupdate.comBack in the early 2000s, you probably got quite used to your laptop crashing all the time, but could the problem have been that you were just listening to Janet Jackson too much?
As nonsensical as that question sounds, the answer is possibly yes.In a recent blog post, Microsoft software engineer and Windows historian Raymond Chen has revealed that a “major computer manufacturer” once came to the company with an unusual issue.
Certain laptops running Windows XP would crash when playing the video for Janet Jackson’s 1989 single ‘Rhythm Nation’.“One discovery [made] during the investigation [was] that playing the music video also crashed some of their competitors’ laptops”, Chen explains. “And then they discovered something extremely weird: Playing the music video on one laptop caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash, even though that other laptop wasn’t playing the video”.Let’s all take a moment to imagine ourselves in a room full of laptops, some playing ‘Rhythm Nation’ and all of them crashing randomly.
OK, now let’s stop, because it’s already quite stressful.It turned out that Windows was not to blame for any of this. The issue was in fact the model of hard drive being used in some laptops at the time.
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