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The article repeats the urban myth: The origin of the word bug as it pertains to engineering goes all the way back to 1947 when Dr. Grace Hoppe
by CarolineW 9y ago
The article repeats the urban myth:
The origin of the word bug as
it pertains to engineering goes
all the way back to 1947 when
Dr. Grace Hopper discovered a
moth stuck in one of the relays
of the Mark II computer.
It goes back further than that - there's a cartoon from the 1930s in which a prospective car buyer lifts the bonnet/hood and some moths fly out, with the voice-over saying "The engine still has a few bugs to be worked out."