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@silverscorpion-iJKtdQ • Feb 17, 2011
See this:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Software Bug</a>
They actually found a dead bug in the vacuum tubes, which jammed the circuits and caused the system to malfunction.
This was the first recorded event of this kind. From then on, bug came to be used to refer to problems in circuits, and later, to wrong or malfunctioning code in programs.. -
@maria-flor-8cAkif • Feb 17, 2011
The term 'bug' was first used by Grace Hopper on September 9th, 1945 when a real bug, a moth, short-circuited an early computer on relay number 70 Panel F, of the MARK II Aiken Relay Calculator, in the Harvard University. The operators of the computer said they had "debugged" the computer, and ever since then the terms has not changed.
This question has spawned a number of urban myths.
The most widely known is that Captain (later Admiral) Grace Hopper was busy debugging a program that she had written. Finding a moth squashed in her card deck, she quipped "this is the first real computer bug !"
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