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Black Screen of Death = B = blammo

Black Thursday n.

February 8th, 1996 - the day of the signing into law of the CDA, so called by analogy with the catastrophic "Black Friday" in 1929 that began the Great Depression.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, this entry manually entered by rootbeer277.


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