ENGL 467: Computer and Text (Spring 2004)


The First Bug (posted 5 April 2004)

The first documented computer bug, discovered by Grace Murry Hopper in a Mark II computer at Harvard University in 1945.

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Good thing they recorded that. Do you think Ms. Hopper had any idea what her little bug would for computer vocabulary. ha. I wonder if that old dead moth has been filed away somewhere in some dank, old basement or in a shrine to computer geek-dom.

Posted by: Megan Bonnell on April 9, 2004 04:06 PM | Permalink to Comment

LOL, I bet its stored in someone's basement. I just find it funny that moth had the ability to bring down a computer which was probably the size of our classroom.

Posted by: Jadan Haddad on April 10, 2004 01:07 PM | Permalink to Comment