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993 On September 9, 1947, a technician on Harvard’s Mark II team taped a dead moth into the logbook beside the line ‘first actual case of bug being found’ — Grace Hopper didn’t find it, didn’t write it, and didn’t coin the term, but she told the story so well for 45 years that it became hers

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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals · 06/15/2026 20:17 EDT

On September 9, 1947, a technician on Harvard’s Mark II team taped a dead moth into the logbook beside the line ‘first actual case of bug being found’ — Grace Hopper didn’t find it, didn’t write it, and didn’t coin the term, but she told the story so well for 45 years that it became hers

On September 9, 1947, technicians on Harvard's Mark II found a moth wedged in Relay #70 and taped it into the logbook. Grace Hopper retold the story for 45 years, fixing the word 'bug' into the vocabulary of computing — even though engineers had been using it since Edison.

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