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World's 1st Computer Bug
When an insect made computer history
U.S. engineers have been calling small flaws in machines 'bugs' for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits in the 1870s. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them. By 1945 the term was used for any defect: In the March 3rd 1945 'Billboard Magazine', a review (p11) notes: 'There are still a number of bugs to shake out, but if we were a sponser, we'd buy it fast.'
Finding small flaws in the first computers
Credit for popularizing the term is generally accorded to computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper, who was working on the primitive Harvard University Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator. On the 9th of September, 1947, when the machine was experiencing problems, an investigation showed that there was a moth trapped between the points of Relay #70, in Panel F. The operators removed the moth and affixed it to the log. The entry reads: 'First actual case of bug being found.' The word went out that they had 'debugged' the machine, and the term 'debugging a computer program' was born. Although Grace Hopper was not there when it actually happened, it was one of her favourite stories.
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We don't need nukes. We have the internet. - Alice Minium
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The computer is down. I hope it's something serious. - Stanton Delaplane
Gigantic: The biggest, scariest bug in your dog's fur - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Iconomic: Making do with fewer icons on your computer desktop - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben
For business, our Internet love affair was a gift from the gods. - Gary Vaynerchuk
Some days you're the bug. Some days you're the windshield. - Price Cobb
The internet turns 30 minutes of homework into 2 hours of homework. - Unknown
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. - John P Barlow
Valentine's day without your love is like a year without the Internet. - Santosh Kalwar
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I use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer. - Leonard Nimoy
Man is the cheapest 150-pound nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. - NASA
The new information technology (Internet and e-mail) have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. - Peter F Drucker
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Until Facebook came along, there was hardly anywhere on the public Internet where you had to operate with your real name. - David Kirkpatrick
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Boat Anchor: 1. Thrown out when you need it, and taken in when you don't; 2. An old computer so useless that it needs to go to sea. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe
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Germ: A little bug with influence - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
You can't write poetry on the computer. - Quentin Tarantino
Oh, so they have internet on computers now! - Homer Simpson
Wherever there's light, there's bugs. - Harry Ironside
We don't need nukes. We have the internet. - Alice Minium
I took the initiative in creating the internet. - Al Gore
Immunity to boredom gives the computer an edge. - Alan Lakein
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. - John Lithgow
Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop. - Mark Zuckerberg
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. - John F Kennedy
Ecrastinate: Checking your e-mail just one more time - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
People will believe anything they read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln
The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail. - Stephen Fry
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. - Steve Wozniak
The computer is down. I hope it's something serious. - Stanton Delaplane
Gigantic: The biggest, scariest bug in your dog's fur - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Iconomic: Making do with fewer icons on your computer desktop - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben
For business, our Internet love affair was a gift from the gods. - Gary Vaynerchuk
Some days you're the bug. Some days you're the windshield. - Price Cobb
The internet turns 30 minutes of homework into 2 hours of homework. - Unknown
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. - John P Barlow
Valentine's day without your love is like a year without the Internet. - Santosh Kalwar
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. - Mitchell Kapor
Keyboard: 1. Place to hang your keys; 2. The standard way to generate computer errors. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public. - Douglas Coupland
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. - Andrew Brown
I use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer. - Leonard Nimoy
Man is the cheapest 150-pound nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. - NASA
The new information technology (Internet and e-mail) have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. - Peter F Drucker
From sixdegrees to Friendster to Facebook, social networking has become a familiar and ubiquitous part of the Internet. - David Kirkpatrick
Until Facebook came along, there was hardly anywhere on the public Internet where you had to operate with your real name. - David Kirkpatrick
The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. - Mark Twain
Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet service to see who they really are. - Will Ferrell
Just think how far we've come in the 20th Century. The man who used to be a cog in the wheel is now a digit in the computer. - Robert Fuoss
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry
Boat Anchor: 1. Thrown out when you need it, and taken in when you don't; 2. An old computer so useless that it needs to go to sea. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe
Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity. - Robin S Sharma
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