https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-story-of-the-first-computer-bug

The story of the first "computer bug"... is a pile of lies.

A fun, endearing, delightful pile of lies.

Bryan LundukeAug 19

Many of us have heard the story of "The First Computer Bug". It goes something like this…

On September 9, 1947 — at 3:45pm — Grace Hopper recorded the "first actual case of a bug being found" in her logbook. The bug was a moth found between the relay contacts of the Harvard Mark II computer.

The story is a fantastic one. A bug. An actual bug causing a computer to misbehave.....