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	A '''computer bug''' is any problem with a computer, whether caused by software or hardware.

	The term "bug" was in use among engineers and repairmen well before the dawn of the [[Computer Age]]{{citation needed\|date=May 2013}}.

	American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits, in a letter to a friend, in 1878{{citation needed\|date=May 2013}}. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them{{citation needed\|date=May 2013}}.

	By 1945 it seems the term was used for any defect: In the March 3rd 1945 ''Billboard Magazine'', a Review on page 11 notes{{citation needed\|date=May 2013}}: "There are still a number of bugs to shake out, but if we were a sponsor, we'd buy it fast".

	Yet, credit for popularizing the term is generally accorded to computer pioneer [[Grace Hopper]], who it is said, in September 1947, "...traced an error in the [[Harvard Mark II\|Mark II]] to a moth trapped in a [[relay]]. The [[Hemiptera\|bug]] was carefully removed and taped to a daily log book. Since then, whenever a computer has a problem, it's referred to as a bug."
	<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_334663\|title=Log Book With Computer Bug\|work=[[National Museum of American History]]}}</ref>
	<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://ids.si.edu/ids/dynamic?id=NMAH-92-13130&container.fullpage\|title=Smithsonian Images - log book}}</ref>

	==See also==
	* [[Software bug]]

	==References==
	{{Reflist}}

	==External links==
	*[http://features.techworld.com/applications/3301346/moth-in-the-machine-debugging-the-origins-of-bug/ Moth in the machine: Debugging the origins of "bug"] - Did Grace Hopper really invent the term "bug" to describe software errors? - ''[[Computerworld]]'' staff - September 5, 2011

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	The term "bug" was in use among engineers and repairmen well before the dawn of the [[Computer Age]]{{citation needed\|date=May 2013}}.		The term "bug" was in use among engineers and repairmen well before the dawn of the [[Computer Age]]{{citation needed\|date=May 2013}}.

	American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits, in a letter to a friend, in 1878. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them.		American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits, in a letter to a friend, in 1878{{citation needed\|date=May 2013}}. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them{{citation needed\|date=May 2013}}.

	By 1945 it seems the term was used for any defect: In the March 3rd 1945 ''Billboard Magazine'', a Review on page 11 notes{{citation needed\|date=May 2013}}: "There are still a number of bugs to shake out, but if we were a sponsor, we'd buy it fast".		By 1945 it seems the term was used for any defect: In the March 3rd 1945 ''Billboard Magazine'', a Review on page 11 notes{{citation needed\|date=May 2013}}: "There are still a number of bugs to shake out, but if we were a sponsor, we'd buy it fast".

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	A '''computer bug''' is any problem with a computer, whether caused by software or hardware.		A '''computer bug''' is any problem with a computer, whether caused by software or hardware.

	The term "bug" was in use among engineers and repairmen well before the dawn of the [[Computer Age]]{{citation needed}}.		The term "bug" was in use among engineers and repairmen well before the dawn of the [[Computer Age]]{{citation needed\|date=May 2013}}.

	American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits, in a letter to a friend, in 1878. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them.		American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits, in a letter to a friend, in 1878. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them.

	By 1945 it seems the term was used for any defect: In the March 3rd 1945 ''Billboard Magazine'', a Review on page 11 notes{{citation needed}}: "There are still a number of bugs to shake out, but if we were a sponsor, we'd buy it fast".		By 1945 it seems the term was used for any defect: In the March 3rd 1945 ''Billboard Magazine'', a Review on page 11 notes{{citation needed\|date=May 2013}}: "There are still a number of bugs to shake out, but if we were a sponsor, we'd buy it fast".

	Yet, credit for popularizing the term is generally accorded to computer pioneer [[Grace Hopper]], who it is said, in September 1947, "...traced an error in the [[Harvard Mark II\|Mark II]] to a moth trapped in a [[relay]]. The [[Hemiptera\|bug]] was carefully removed and taped to a daily log book. Since then, whenever a computer has a problem, it's referred to as a bug."		Yet, credit for popularizing the term is generally accorded to computer pioneer [[Grace Hopper]], who it is said, in September 1947, "...traced an error in the [[Harvard Mark II\|Mark II]] to a moth trapped in a [[relay]]. The [[Hemiptera\|bug]] was carefully removed and taped to a daily log book. Since then, whenever a computer has a problem, it's referred to as a bug."

65.130.2.174: was unable to locate actual citations for the the claims; they sound interesting, but they aren't cited besides the "a review on page 11", and I can't seem to find that actual article ...

2013-05-27T00:56:10Z

was unable to locate actual citations for the the claims; they sound interesting, but they aren't cited besides the "a review on page 11", and I can't seem to find that actual article ...

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	A '''computer bug''' is any problem with a computer, whether caused by software or hardware.		A '''computer bug''' is any problem with a computer, whether caused by software or hardware.

	The term "bug" was in use among engineers and repairmen well before the dawn of the [[Computer Age]].		The term "bug" was in use among engineers and repairmen well before the dawn of the [[Computer Age]]{{citation needed}}.

	American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits, in a letter to a friend, in 1878. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them.		American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits, in a letter to a friend, in 1878. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them.

	By 1945 it seems the term was used for any defect: In the March 3rd 1945 ''Billboard Magazine'', a Review on page 11 notes: "There are still a number of bugs to shake out, but if we were a sponsor, we'd buy it fast".		By 1945 it seems the term was used for any defect: In the March 3rd 1945 ''Billboard Magazine'', a Review on page 11 notes{{citation needed}}: "There are still a number of bugs to shake out, but if we were a sponsor, we'd buy it fast".

	Yet, credit for popularizing the term is generally accorded to computer pioneer [[Grace Hopper]], who it is said, in September 1947, "...traced an error in the [[Harvard Mark II\|Mark II]] to a moth trapped in a [[relay]]. The [[Hemiptera\|bug]] was carefully removed and taped to a daily log book. Since then, whenever a computer has a problem, it's referred to as a bug."		Yet, credit for popularizing the term is generally accorded to computer pioneer [[Grace Hopper]], who it is said, in September 1947, "...traced an error in the [[Harvard Mark II\|Mark II]] to a moth trapped in a [[relay]]. The [[Hemiptera\|bug]] was carefully removed and taped to a daily log book. Since then, whenever a computer has a problem, it's referred to as a bug."

121.45.201.112: Expanded detail on use of "bug" by Edison

2013-05-20T15:13:55Z

Expanded detail on use of "bug" by Edison

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	The term "bug" was in use among engineers and repairmen well before the dawn of the [[Computer Age]].		The term "bug" was in use among engineers and repairmen well before the dawn of the [[Computer Age]].

	American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits in ~~the~~ ~~1870s~~. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them.		American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits, in a letter to a friend, in 1878. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them.

	By 1945 it seems the term was used for any defect: In the March 3rd 1945 ''Billboard Magazine'', a Review on page 11 notes: "There are still a number of bugs to shake out, but if we were a sponsor, we'd buy it fast".		By 1945 it seems the term was used for any defect: In the March 3rd 1945 ''Billboard Magazine'', a Review on page 11 notes: "There are still a number of bugs to shake out, but if we were a sponsor, we'd buy it fast".

Another-sailor: added date from ref.

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	By 1945 it seems the term was used for any defect: In the March 3rd 1945 ''Billboard Magazine'', a Review on page 11 notes: "There are still a number of bugs to shake out, but if we were a sponsor, we'd buy it fast".		By 1945 it seems the term was used for any defect: In the March 3rd 1945 ''Billboard Magazine'', a Review on page 11 notes: "There are still a number of bugs to shake out, but if we were a sponsor, we'd buy it fast".

	Yet, credit for popularizing the term is generally accorded to computer pioneer [[Grace Hopper]], who it is said, "...traced an error in the [[Harvard Mark II\|Mark II]] to a moth trapped in a [[relay]]. The [[Hemiptera\|bug]] was carefully removed and taped to a daily log book. Since then, whenever a computer has a problem, it's referred to as a bug."		Yet, credit for popularizing the term is generally accorded to computer pioneer [[Grace Hopper]], who it is said, in September 1947, "...traced an error in the [[Harvard Mark II\|Mark II]] to a moth trapped in a [[relay]]. The [[Hemiptera\|bug]] was carefully removed and taped to a daily log book. Since then, whenever a computer has a problem, it's referred to as a bug."
	<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_334663\|title=Log Book With Computer Bug\|work=[[National Museum of American History]]}}</ref>		<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_334663\|title=Log Book With Computer Bug\|work=[[National Museum of American History]]}}</ref>
	<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://ids.si.edu/ids/dynamic?id=NMAH-92-13130&container.fullpage\|title=Smithsonian Images - log book}}</ref>		<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://ids.si.edu/ids/dynamic?id=NMAH-92-13130&container.fullpage\|title=Smithsonian Images - log book}}</ref>

Colin Douglas Howell: Undid revision 524371776 by 67.184.10.207 (talk) Um, read what you're editing. The change you made is contradicted in the very next paragraph.

2012-11-23T02:39:22Z

Undid revision 524371776 by 67.184.10.207 (talk) Um, read what you're editing. The change you made is contradicted in the very next paragraph.

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	A '''computer bug''' is any problem with a computer, whether caused by software or hardware.		A '''computer bug''' is any problem with a computer, whether caused by software or hardware.

	The term "bug" was in use among engineers and repairmen ~~since~~ the dawn of the [[Computer Age]].		The term "bug" was in use among engineers and repairmen well before the dawn of the [[Computer Age]].

	American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits in the 1870s. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them.		American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits in the 1870s. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them.

67.184.10.207: um yeah. like computers and bugs go together. no bullshit!

2012-11-22T16:18:14Z

um yeah. like computers and bugs go together. no bullshit!

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	A '''computer bug''' is any problem with a computer, whether caused by software or hardware.		A '''computer bug''' is any problem with a computer, whether caused by software or hardware.

	The term "bug" was in use among engineers and repairmen ~~well before~~ the dawn of the [[Computer Age]].		The term "bug" was in use among engineers and repairmen since the dawn of the [[Computer Age]].

	American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits in the 1870s. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them.		American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits in the 1870s. When the first computers were built during the early 1940s, people working on them found bugs in both the hardware of the machines and in the programs that ran them.