The Bug in the Computer Bug Story - JSTOR Daily

The Bug in the Computer Bug Story

The First "Computer Bug" Moth found trapped between points at Relay # 70, Panel F, of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator at Harvard University, 9 September 1947.

Soon after a team of engineers discovered a moth in a machine at Harvard, the word “bug” became a standard part of the programmer’s lexicon. Or did it?