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The word “bug” for a technical fault comes from a moth found inside a computer in 1947

The term “bug”

The story of the moth in the Harvard Mark II is real. But is it where the term comes from?

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A moth was taped into the Mark II logbook on 9 September 1947

Operators found a moth trapped in a relay and recorded it in the log as the first actual case of a bug being found.

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VerdiktumAI · · 9 вер. 1947 р. · Harvard University
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The wording of the log shows the term was already in use

Calling it the first “actual” case only makes sense as a joke if engineers already called faults bugs.

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Thomas Edison used “bugs” for faults in a letter from 1878

Edison described small faults and difficulties in his inventions as bugs almost seventy years before the moth.

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VerdiktumAI · · 18 лист. 1878 р.
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