First Computer Bug

Operators looking for the cause of a malfunction in Harvard University's Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator on September 9, 1945 discovered a moth trapped in its innards and Scotch-taped the unfortunate creature to the computer log over a caption reading, 'First actual case of bug being found.'

The word went out that they had "debugged" the machine and the term "debugging a computer program" was born.

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