Let’s talk about the first bugs today. You’re probably already thinking about two different meanings for the word bug: one is all about six-legged critters (possibly also eight-legged, depending on how you define it), and the other is about some kind of error in a computer process or program.
It doesn't bother me at all that the terminology predates the '40s. I loved zooming in on her note and reading her words and the procedures and their timestamps. You can visualize what their day was like and someone back there in the computer finding the moth and bringing it to her. And then her keeping it!
Have you ever looked into or written about the origin of gremlins?
Unfortunately the story is overblown. There are plenty of examples of 'bug' for a design defect in a machine before 1950. Hopper was making a neat pun on a well-known existing term, not inventing a word.
Do you believe that you are of monkey origin, and why are you upset when I remind you of what you think is that you are monkeys.... The points placed have their meanings, you can fill their place according to your deficiency.
Stories like these bug me (in a good way) because they get in my brain about what other apocrypha exists.
Man, this is one story I wish were true - what a twist it would be to know that "bugs" were that literal.
Also, as I did before, I first read the post title as "Fist Bugs" and now I'm extremely disappointed that I'll never learn more about this phenomenon.
Are "fist bugs" a very localized disease where you develop bugs inside your finger joints?
Are "fist bugs" a type of weapon like "brass knuckles," and you go around punching people in the face with a handful of bugs?
We'll just never know!
Prune juice in Dr. Pepper appears to be one.
It doesn't bother me at all that the terminology predates the '40s. I loved zooming in on her note and reading her words and the procedures and their timestamps. You can visualize what their day was like and someone back there in the computer finding the moth and bringing it to her. And then her keeping it!
Have you ever looked into or written about the origin of gremlins?
Hopper ended up becoming one of the first female members of the U.S. Navy to obtain the rank of Admiral.
Unfortunately the story is overblown. There are plenty of examples of 'bug' for a design defect in a machine before 1950. Hopper was making a neat pun on a well-known existing term, not inventing a word.
Do you believe that you are of monkey origin, and why are you upset when I remind you of what you think is that you are monkeys.... The points placed have their meanings, you can fill their place according to your deficiency.