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The comedy bomb icon on the original Mac's crash screen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_(icon)#Mac_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_(icon)#Mac_OS famous
by leoc 4y ago
The comedy bomb icon on the original Mac's crash screen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_(icon)#Mac_OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_(icon)#Mac_OS famously got old after a while.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoI dunno, that reads less as comedy to me and more as a quick visual way to express "you're in trouble". Notably, the text in that screenshot is completely serious - "Sorry, a system error occurred. [details]" is perfectly reasonable, and the icon is just... flavoring. It presents to me as vastly more respectful than, say NT's ":(" error screen.
- layer8 4y agoI think the bomb is confusing because it depicts something about to blow up, having the user wonder what it would mean for the bomb to explode and how they would prevent it, whereas in actuality the bad thing has already happened.
- IIsi50MHz 4y agoSome Mac users thought the bomb icon meant they MUST turn off or unplug the computer as fast as possible, or it would literally explode. Even a few who had been users for a few years. The possibility never occurred to me until the first time I heard someone in all seriousness (and with appropriate note of trepidation) assert it when describing how to handle it to someone.
- foobar1962 4y agoA better complaint would be the about system call name. From Wikipedia: In the original Mac OS, the system call to display a "bomb box" was called DSError, for "Deep Shit". This was deemed obscene, and became the "System Error Manager".