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The First Computer Bug (Bug): On September 9, 1947, a team of computer scientists and engineers reported a moth 🪳 caught between the relay contacts of the Harvard Mark II computer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They taped the dead moth into the logbook for the computer. “First actual case of bug 🪲 being found,” one of the team members wrote in the log. Programmer Grace Hopper -- a CHM Fellow (1987) -- was present and made the incident famous later on in her many public lectures. Originating with Thomas Edison in the 1800s, the term “bug” 🪲 is still used widely to describe a mistake or failure in a technical system. A member of the programming team, Grace Hopper, recorded the story in her log book: “It was over in another building, and the windows had no screens on them 🪟 and we were working on it at night, of course, and all the bugs 🪳 in the world came in. And one night she (Mark II) conked out 🖥️ and we went to look for the bug 🪲 and found an actual large moth, about four inches in wing span, in one of the relays beaten to death, and we took it out and put it in the log book and pasted Scotch tape over it 📜
