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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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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
The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail. - Stephen Fry
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
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. - Clifford Stoll
Iconomic: Making do with fewer icons on your computer desktop - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
For business, our Internet love affair was a gift from the gods. - Gary Vaynerchuk
Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug. - Mark Knopfler
Some days you're the bug. Some days you're the windshield. - Price Cobb
On the keyboard of life always keep one finger on the 'escape' key. - Unknown
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. - Emo Philips
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. - Mitchell Kapor
Please leave my computer alone. The only cookies I want to get are the ones I can eat. - Heather Wolf
Keyboard: 1. Place to hang your keys; 2. The standard way to generate computer errors. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Internet: The best library in the world, but with all its books strewn across the floor - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
I don't believe in e-mail. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up. - Sarah Jessica Parker
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. - Nicholas Negroponte
Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!' - Bill Hader
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
The Internet has turned what used to be a controlled, one-way message into a real-time dialogue with millions. - Danielle Sacks
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. - Andy Grove
Man is the cheapest 150-pound nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. - NASA
Antelope: 1. Why Grandpa won't forgive Uncle; 2. Event involving two bugs who fall in love and run away together. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The new information technology (Internet and e-mail) have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. - Peter F Drucker
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 2,000 MPG. - Bill Gates
From sixdegrees to Friendster to Facebook, social networking has become a familiar and ubiquitous part of the Internet. - David Kirkpatrick
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay
Until Facebook came along, there was hardly anywhere on the public Internet where you had to operate with your real name. - David Kirkpatrick
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
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
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. - Andy Rooney
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