TIL the name of computer "bugs" stuck around because a moth got stuck in a computer component in 1947
TIL the name of computer "bugs" stuck around because a moth got stuck in a computer component in 1947
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Log Book With Computer Bug
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_334663
American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits in the 1870s.