I actually found out about this a week or two ago, in a book I was reading, but here it is again. Read it and be happy :lol: _____________________ Ever wondered about the origins of the term "bugs" as applied to computer technology? U.S. Navy Capt. Grace Murray Hopper has firsthand explanation. The 74-year-old captain, who is still on active duty, was a pioneer in computer technology during World War II. At the C.W. Post Center of Long Island University, Hopper told a group of Long Island public school administrators that the first computer "bug" was a real bug -- a moth. At Harvard one August night in 1945 1947, Hopper and her associates were working on the "granddaddy" of modern computers, the Mark I Mark II. "Things were going badly; there was something wrong in one of the circuits of the long glass-enclosed computer," she said. "Finally, someone located the trouble spot and, using ordinary tweezers, removed the problem, a two-inch moth. From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it." Hopper said that when the veracity of her story was questioned recently, "I referred them to my 1945 1947 log book, now in the collection of Naval Surface Weapons Center, and they found the remains of that moth taped to the page in question." Link: http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/...5&objkey=30 Click the Image to see the images. Bigger Image: Post Thoughts here...
Yup And dinges ... it is funny but it is known throughout the human race as of this point We all kind of love that little fellow Also that bug has been preserved in some museum to show that it was the first ever computer bug...
