Debunking of the bug story as etymological folklore has been going on since at least 1984. Every few years there's another article about it (which is good for t

Debunking of the bug story as etymological folklore has been going on since at least 1984. Every few years there's another article about it (which is good for the daily 10,000.) The first appears to have been in Byte magazine and then IEEE Annals of the History of Computing in 1984. Followed by American Speech in 1987 and again in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing in 1998. Links: https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1984-07_OCR/page/n33/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1984-07_OCR/page/n33/mod... https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=4640793 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=4640793 https://doi.org/10.2307/455415 https://doi.org/10.2307/455415 http://ivizlab.sfu.ca/arya/Papers/IEEE/HTML%20Docs/Computer%20Bug.htm http://ivizlab.sfu.ca/arya/Papers/IEEE/HTML%20Docs/Computer%...