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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 9 Sep 2017

      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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    2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 9 Sep 2017

      On this day in 2017, a lot of people still seem to believe the discovery of that moth was the origin of the term "bug," but it wasn't.

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    3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 9 Sep 2017

      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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    4. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 9 Sep 2017

      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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    5. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 9 Sep 2017

      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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    6. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 9 Sep 2017

      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 @BertCattoor)

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    7. Artur Adib‏ @r2r 9 Sep 2017
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      If the term wasn't widespread before computers perhaps it was independently 'rediscovered'?

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 9 Sep 2017
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      It was widespread. The people who found the moth were already using it. That's why they thought it was funny to find a literal bug.

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