I'd be tired too, after 20 years of service.
init 2.78 was the version most distros were shipping when the whole Y2K thingie was on all our minds. That's 20 years of service, and the only reason it quit was because the idiot in charge didn't know it needed more disk space (which is hardly the OS's fault).
And please note that it probably didn't actually quit. That's a secondary display screen, not the console. The console probably has a nice, friendly multi-user login prompt on it. (Why it was configured to display boot info on that screen is anybody's guess ... Probably a RedHat 6.x or Debian 2.x thingie).