HISTORY MYSTERY: ORIGIN OF THE TERM DEBUGGING
Ever wondered where the term debugging came from? Well, it has an interesting history. On September 9, 1947,Grace Murray Hopper records the first computer bug in the Harvard Mark II computer's log book. In this case, it literally was a bug. Operators including William Burke found a ... Moth, between the relays on the Harvard Mark II Computer they were working on. In those days, computers were large enough to fill rooms, and the warmth of its internal components attracted moths, flies and bugs ... Although the term 'bug in a computer' has been used before, it became widely popular after Grace Hopper wrote, "First actual case of bug being found" in the log book. Source Since then, the term Debugging the bug became really popular. This is how computers during late 1940s looke...