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The Wonderful World of Early Computing

By Scott Classen on February 26, 2008 10:44 PM |

Brief but interesting history of early computers

On September 9, 1945, U.S. Navy officer Grace Hopper found the first computer “bug”: a moth stuck between the relays on the Harvard Mark II. She noted it on her log as the “first actual case of bug being found.” Though the term “bug” had meant a computer error beforehand, it became a popular term after this incident.

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