The First Computer Bug

October 5, 2009 | Category: Cool

by Payam

Count me among the many who discovered that the first computer bug was, in fact, an insect that disrupted a circuit in the first computer from an episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire a few years back. Original documentation like the one pictured below is simply priceless.

For the record, Wikipedia’s entry on logical bugs in mechanisms and algorithms specifically mentions that the date is 1947.