TIL the name of computer "bugs" stuck around because a moth got stuck in a computer component in 1947
TIL the name of computer "bugs" stuck around because a moth got stuck in a computer component in 1947
americanhistory.si.edu
Log Book With Computer Bug
American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits in the 1870s.
But how did this name originally come into place in engineering??