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the universal cure that admits we have no idea what went wrong
means To restart a computer or system so it loads fresh from the beginning, often clearing whatever glitch had taken hold.
from A literal child of "boot," which is short for "bootstrap" — from the old impossible image of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. Early computers had to load their first instructions seemingly from nothing, lifting themselves into operation by their own metaphorical straps, so starting one up became "booting." Add the prefix "re-" ("again") and you get "reboot": to haul the machine up by its bootstraps a second time. The word later leapt from screens to storytelling, where a "reboot" restarts a tired franchise from scratch.
- origin
- From bootstrap, the impossible act of pulling yourself up
- IT gospel
- Have you tried turning it off and on again?
- cold vs warm
- Cold kills power; warm restarts without losing it
- Hollywood
- Studios reboot franchises hoping nostalgia reloads the box office
- memory wipe
- Restarting clears RAM, erasing whatever quietly broke
windows xp reboot screen — iconic blue screen that appeared when restarting windows xp computers from 2001-2014
star trek discovery — 2017 cbs reboot of the original 1966 star trek series with new cast and timeline
battlestar galactica 2004 — reimagined reboot of the 1978 original series that ran on syfy for 4 seasons