zlatiah@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoTIL the name of computer "bugs" stuck around because a moth got stuck in a computer component in 1947americanhistory.si.eduexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1207arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1197arrow-down1external-linkTIL the name of computer "bugs" stuck around because a moth got stuck in a computer component in 1947americanhistory.si.eduzlatiah@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNull User Object@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·9 days agoSorry, I’m firmly in Ada Lovelace’s camp for credit for first use of the term. https://medium.com/the-mumblings-of-a-security-professional/a-bug-in-the-machine-286800f71cbc
minus-squareDeebster@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·edit-29 days agoThe phrasing of “First actual case of bug being found” definitely sounds like it’s a reference to an existing term. Nowadays maybe people would say “a literal bug lol”. Edit: to be fair, OP doesn’t say that Hopper invented the term
minus-squareNull User Object@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·9 days agoTrue. I was more responding to the article that makes no reference to Ada Lovelace. She’s deserves to be mentioned when that topic comes up.
Sorry, I’m firmly in Ada Lovelace’s camp for credit for first use of the term. https://medium.com/the-mumblings-of-a-security-professional/a-bug-in-the-machine-286800f71cbc
The phrasing of “First actual case of bug being found” definitely sounds like it’s a reference to an existing term. Nowadays maybe people would say “a literal bug lol”.
Edit: to be fair, OP doesn’t say that Hopper invented the term
True. I was more responding to the article that makes no reference to Ada Lovelace. She’s deserves to be mentioned when that topic comes up.