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<img width="316" height="346" data-tf-not-load src="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bug1.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Bug" decoding="async" srcset="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bug1.jpg 316w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bug1-273x300.jpg 273w" sizes="(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px" />
<img decoding="async" width="273" height="300" data-tf-not-load src="http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2013/09/bug1-273x300.jpg" alt="Bug" class="wp-image-22188" srcset="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bug1-273x300.jpg 273w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bug1.jpg 316w" sizes="(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px" />Bug
1945 – Grace Hopper is forever immortalized in the computer world as the first person to find a bug in a computer system. Litterally. The bug was a moth in between Relay #70 on Panel “F” of the Harvard Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator.From there on end, “Bug” meant a problem in a computer system. I guess once the moth was removed, the word “Debug” was also added.BTW – The relay functioned properly after the moth was removed.
1947 – It sounds like that same relay finally failed 2 years later.
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<img width="316" height="346" data-tf-not-load src="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bug1.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Bug" decoding="async" srcset="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bug1.jpg 316w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bug1-273x300.jpg 273w" sizes="(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px" />
<img decoding="async" width="273" height="300" data-tf-not-load src="http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2013/09/bug1-273x300.jpg" alt="Bug" class="wp-image-22188" srcset="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bug1-273x300.jpg 273w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bug1.jpg 316w" sizes="(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px" />Bug
1945 – Grace Hopper is forever immortalized in the computer world as the first person to find a bug in a computer system. Litterally. The bug was a moth in between Relay #70 on Panel “F” of the Harvard Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator.From there on end, “Bug” meant a problem in a computer system. I guess once the moth was removed, the word “Debug” was also added.BTW – The relay functioned properly after the moth was removed.
1947 – It sounds like that same relay finally failed 2 years later.
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- The first TRS-80 is sold
- Sony releases the Playstation
- 9/9/99 (in 1999 that is)
- Script Kiddies hack NBC News
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