The first version of xp got me so darn mad with it's obsession of BSODing every 7 minutes. You start your PC, windows starts up and BAM!: "Windows has found an illegal operation and must be shut down." -> BSOD
Or when you tried to turn on some games xp gave you a message: "system failed correctly" -> BSOD.
If you accidentally got to play a game without bsod, when you were in a tight spot and wanted to save -> BSOD!

But yea, nowadays you dont get that much of those.