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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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On the keyboard of life always keep one finger on the 'escape' key. - Unknown
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The new information technology (Internet and e-mail) have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. - Peter F Drucker
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Germ: A little bug with influence - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
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You can't write poetry on the computer. - Quentin Tarantino
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We don't need nukes. We have the internet. - Alice Minium
Computer logic is no substitute for human wisdom. - Unknown
Ecrastinate: Checking your e-mail just one more time - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. - Jeff Pesis
People will believe anything they read on the internet. - Abraham Lincoln
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
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson
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
Valentine's day without your love is like a year without the Internet. - Santosh Kalwar
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
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation. - Nicholas Negroponte
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
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
People enjoy the interaction on the internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting. - Linus Torvalds
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
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
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. - Penn Jillette
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
The day I made that statement, about inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the camcorder. - Al Gore
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe
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
The problem with the internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate? - Umberto Eco
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