Did the First Computer Bug Involve a Real Insect?

💡 The Answer

• The term 'bug' predates computers, but the first documented computer bug was a moth.
• In 1947, engineers found a moth trapped in a relay of the Harvard Mark II.
• Grace Hopper, a computing pioneer, famously taped the moth into the logbook.
• This incident popularized 'debugging' to describe fixing computer issues.