One of the frequencies in part of Jackson's single happened to match up perfectly with the natural resonant frequency of the 5,400rpm hard drives used in older laptops. — AFP
Back in the heydays of Windows XP in the early 2000s, an unnamed computer manufacturer made a discovery that was more than just a bit surprising: when the music video for Janet Jackson's 1989 hit single Rhythm Nation was played, certain models of laptops ended up crashing.
In a post made on The Old New Thing, the developer blog on Microsoft's website, Raymond Chen, a principal engineer at the company, elaborated that the manufacturer ended up making some key discoveries while investigating what exactly caused the crashes.
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