Why Are Computer Glitches Called Bugs?

💡 The Answer

• The term 'bug' in computing dates back to 1947 when Grace Hopper found a moth stuck in a relay of the Harvard Mark II computer.
• She meticulously logged the incident in her notebook, noting 'First actual case of bug being found,' which popularized the term.
• The moth was carefully removed and taped into the logbook, which is now preserved at the Smithsonian Institution.
• While the term predates this event, Hopper's famous moth cemented 'debugging' in engineering vocabulary.