On this day in 1947 a moth was found in a computer, which was funny because people had already been using "bug" for a computer glitch.
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From early uses I've seen, I'd guess the term comes from the metaphor "to iron the bugs out of."
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The first use of that I can find with Google Book Search is from 1926, though IIRC I've seen earlier ones.http://goo.gl/a6JwHZ
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The OED says the first printed use of "bug" in the sense of glitch was in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1889.
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That article was about Edison looking for one. He used the term in notebooks in 1876. http://theinstitute.ieee.org/tech-history/technology-history/did-you-know-edison-coined-the-term-bug … (via
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I recall hearing that Edison used the term.
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