I've never heard the joke version of this story. It's only people earnestly explaining that this is where the word bug comes from. Or people debunking that. "F

I've never heard the joke version of this story. It's only people earnestly explaining that this is where the word bug comes from. Or people debunking that. "First actual bug" gets turned into "first bug was an actual bug" in the retelling, and people are pretty insistent about it.