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TODAY IN HISTORY: The entirely literal origin of a computer slang word
September 9
One of the world's first computers, the Harvard Mark II, started malfunctioning on September 9, 1946.
As pioneering computer scientists Grace Hopper and Bill Burke dissembled it, they came across a moth squished in a relay.
The computer scientists and engineers at Harvard soon began referring to problems in the hardware as "computer bugs".
September 9
One of the world's first computers, the Harvard Mark II, started malfunctioning on September 9, 1946.
As pioneering computer scientists Grace Hopper and Bill Burke dissembled it, they came across a moth squished in a relay.
The computer scientists and engineers at Harvard soon began referring to problems in the hardware as "computer bugs".
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