The very first computer "bug"

[OZFive]

This is pretty interesting, the entire slide show is worth the time to read but I really liked finding out about the worlds very first computer "bug"

THE BUG (http://www.thocp.net/slideshow/1940.htm)

[BlueSkyNIS]

xaxa so funny :lolflag:

[red_Marvin]

Ever since I've heard of that I've ben on and off itching to propagate for a name change from "bug" to "moth".
I have a moth in my code.

[emshains]

Ill try do demoth your new code.

[Puptentacle]

"Have you tried (insert program name here)"?

"Yeah, the beta is much better than the alpha. It was so mothy!"

[Teber]

how about this: my code was plagued by something very aggressive: a tiger moth!

[Puptentacle]

Oh yeah? Well, MY computer was afflicted with the Mothman! :lolflag:

[aaaantoine]

Roy's computer has a few moths but one big, nasty Mothra. He's gonna have to do a fresh install.

[popch]

Oh yeah? Well, MY computer was afflicted with the Mothman!

To de-mothman your PC try Spiderman.

To prevent moths from entering your system try mothballs.

[macogw]

Ugh, no. Not the first bug. The term "bug" had been in use by electrical engineers for a lot longer than that. Thomas freaking Edison used the term, for Pete's sakes! Given that EE, CE, and CS were pretty much all the same thing (most anything on a computer was done in hardware) back then, of course they would've used the same term.

[aaaantoine]

Way to ruin our fun, macogw. :-P

[popch]

Ugh, no. Not the first bug. The term "bug" had been in use by electrical engineers for a lot longer than that. Thomas freaking Edison used the term, for Pete's sakes!

Probably so. However, Edison couldn't very well have called it a 'computer bug', could he?