Why we call them bugs.

Question

In September of 1945, Harvard university operators removed a moth fouling the guts of a primitive computer called the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator. They taped it to that day log's with the entry: "First actual case of bug being found."

Mark II was an early computer used in the US Navy. When operators used it to perform calculations, it gave wrong results. To find out what was going wrong, they opened the computer and looked inside and they found a moth stuck inside it which had caused the malfunction.

Answer 1

So it was a moth...

Next time I'll just tell my professor that I've found moths in his codes and just stare at him.

Answer 2

so it it not a bug, but a moth

Answer 3

Good information.
Thanks for sharing this with us!
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Answer 4

This post needs only 1 upvote to reach 50 likes! ^_^

Answer 5

History has been always interesting about information technology.

Answer 6

50th Like hhahahahahahhah

Answer 7

Is Harvard the first @ everything? You'd figure they wrote the book. 🤔

P.S. stay away from Harvard Extension School. They keep sending me e-mails, it's kind of sad. Yup, big business has found its way to the oldest University in the country.

Imagine that?

-bErN

Answer 8

A bug literally stuck in an earlier device.

Answer 9

Cause in the past, there was a machine which didn't work. And the reason of it is because insects.

Answer 10

Its my upvote who made +50 ....😎😎

Answer 11

ifl, that is my birthday. No joke...

Answer 12

I mean the day not the year.

Answer 13

Oh and it's 1945, Google it...

Answer 14

Read this; it's so amazing:
https://www.simple-talk.com/blogs/why-do-we-call-them-bugs/

Answer 15

well because people were lately inspired by spider-man(bug-man)

Answer 16

when I was younger I learnt the history of Computing and old computers used to use valves in their technology and they ran hot and insects got stuck to them it wasn't just a moth it was everything flies spiders the lot and it did cause the valves to malfunction and the old computers had to be debugged they used to use various conditional switches because everything goes back to binary 0 and 1 on and off by the way what do you call a fly with no wings a walk old jokes thought it might make you smile
thank you for your comments I do appreciate sometimes old dogs are useful lol

Answer 17

apparently it was 9 sept 1947 that the moth was found.

Answer 18

@Helioform. lol. i almost made a stupid joke about your age. :-D

Answer 19

I once found a dead fly inside the pc on motherboard when I opened it up (because pc stopped working), and after hoovering it pc started working again! Sometimes pc stops because of dust too...not just bugs; haha 😂

Answer 20

because they are such a pain in ass like the real bug , and they keep biting your mind