Legend has it, Janet Jackson's 'Rhythm Nation' music video once had the power to crash laptops.
for the 1989 hit song played on certain models, the laptop would crash. Then, the company found out the same thing was happening to their competitors.could cause nearby laptops to crash, too."It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used," Chen said.
Chen said developers likely put a digital sort of "do not remove sticker," but because it’s been so long, he wonders if developers today know why it’s there.
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