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The first computer "bug" was a real moth.

The first computer "bug" was a real moth stuck in a machine in 1947.

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The first computer "bug" was a real moth.
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In 1947, engineers working on the Harvard Mark II computer found a moth jammed inside one of its relays. They taped it into their logbook with the note “first actual case of bug being found.”

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