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Blue Screen Of Death

error screen displayed on a Microsoft Windows computer system following a fatal system error
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Blue Screen Of Death
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Summary

Blue Screen Of Death is an error message[1]. It draws 6,402 Wikipedia views per month (error message category, ranking #2 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • Follows: fatal system error[3]
  • Developer: Microsoft[4]
  • Subclass of: system crash[5], screen of death[6]
  • Commons category: Blue screen of death[7]
  • Platform: Microsoft Windows[8]
  • Language of work or name: English[9]
  • Publication date: July 27, 1993[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Blue screen of death[11]
  • Commons gallery: BSoD[12]
  • Different from: black screen of death[13], Blue screen[14]
  • First appearance: Windows 3.0[15]

Why It Matters

Blue Screen Of Death has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 129 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

Microsoft Microsoft Windows Progressbar95 Windows 3.0

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . ar35.juneo.space. ar35.juneo.space. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . BetaWiki. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12d ago · ~2026-45999-82 · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Language of work or name → English
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ary', 'az', 'bg', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', '
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