The First Computer Bug Ever — Literally

Donna M. Jennings
ILLUMINATION
Published in
2 min readAug 29, 2022

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Photo Courtesy of Pixabay

In the modern information age, most of us take the terms “computer bug” and “debugging” for granted. In fact, computer literate people probably can’t remember a time when an alternate meaning for “bug” wasn’t an “error in a software program or hardware system”. There is, in fact, an interesting story behind the adoption of the bug reference.

The Background

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Donna M. Jennings
ILLUMINATION

My over 25 year career has been as a Programmer/Analyst, and I love to write. I try to combine the two when I can. “You can make anything by writing”—C.S. Lewis