In 1947, the Harvard Mark II computer was malfunctioning. Engineers eventually found a dead moth wedged between two relay points, causing a short. Removing it fixed the problem. They saved the moth and it’s on display at a museum to this day.
The moth was not okay.
And to be fair, the word bug had been used to describe little problems and glitches before that incident, but this was the first case of a computer bug.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
thanks for illustrating the corpo speak
moseschrute@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nobody ever asks how the bug is doing
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Fun fact time:
That’s why they’re called computer bugs.
In 1947, the Harvard Mark II computer was malfunctioning. Engineers eventually found a dead moth wedged between two relay points, causing a short. Removing it fixed the problem. They saved the moth and it’s on display at a museum to this day.
The moth was not okay.
And to be fair, the word bug had been used to describe little problems and glitches before that incident, but this was the first case of a computer bug.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They didn’t tell us this part when they taught it in school #RIP Bug, the OG bug who died to the OG pull request.
tdawg@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Poor guy :(
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 4 weeks ago
Nah, he was the first computer criminal.