history.navy.mil — Moth found trapped in the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, 9 September 1945. The operators affixed the moth to the computer log, with the entry: "First actual case of bug being found". They put out the word that they had "debugged" the machine, thus introducing the term "debugging a computer program".
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gronkkJan 20, 2006
The text "first case of bug being found" is a bit suspiciousThe whole thing stinks if you ask me...
Closed AccountJan 20, 2006
Yeah... dupe.
captsnuffyJan 20, 2006
I always heard it that way but it was a vaccuum tube, not a relay. Maybe they were just referring to the tubes as a relay or the myth as it was told to me isnt entirely true.
l124rdJan 20, 2006
+Digg for the second comment alone ~_^
monickelsJan 20, 2006
This is, of course, rubbish if you're believing it's the origin of a computer bug. Even Wikipiedia has it correct. Edison wrote the following words in a letter to an associate in 1878: "It has been just so in all of my inventions. The first step is an intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise—this thing gives out and [it is] then that "Bugs"—as such little faults and difficulties are called—show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached."