![A log book. Written primarily in black ink. An insect’s body is on the page. There is tape overtop the insect’s body to preserve the world’s “first computer bug”.](/images/uploads/first-computer-bug.jpg)
Fun fact!
On September 9, 1947, the world’s first computer bug was recorded. A “Bug” was first coined by Grace Hopper - one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer.
While working on the Mark II in the Harvard Computation Laboratory, Grace, and other operators discovered an error caused by a moth trapped in a relay. Grace removed the moth and taped it to their log book, cementing history as the first “computer bug”.