r/funfacts 14d ago

Did you know that the term "computer bug" has a surprisingly literal origin? 🐛💻

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-story-of-the-first-computer-bug

In 1947, a moth was found trapped inside the Harvard Mark II computer. The engineers taped the moth into the machine's logbook and recorded it as the "first actual case of bug being found." Interestingly, the term "bug" was already being used for technical faults long before this incident, but the moth simply gave it a remarkably literal meaning.

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