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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down5·2 months agoThat wasn’t the first bug; it couldn’t have been because the term hadn’t been coined yet. It was just the first programming mistake. The first computer bug was found by Grace Hopper, and was caused by an actual insect that had gotten into the machine.
minus-squareMelmi@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 months agoThis is a myth; the term “bug” for mistake predates the famous moth incident.
minus-squareAnyOldName3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoThe pun doesn’t even make sense unless the term was already in common use when Hopper wrote it. If you don’t already know what a computer bug is, the note sounds deranged.
minus-squarejason@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoLou Gehrig was the first person to get Lou Gehrig’s disease.
That wasn’t the first bug; it couldn’t have been because the term hadn’t been coined yet. It was just the first programming mistake.
The first computer bug was found by Grace Hopper, and was caused by an actual insect that had gotten into the machine.
This is a myth; the term “bug” for mistake predates the famous moth incident.
The pun doesn’t even make sense unless the term was already in common use when Hopper wrote it. If you don’t already know what a computer bug is, the note sounds deranged.
Lou Gehrig was the first person to get Lou Gehrig’s disease.