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Correct answer: Moth
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In the thread below, respond to the following prompt:
"What bug does the term “debugging” originate from?"
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A literal bug (a moth) was trapped inside Harvard's Mark II computer in 1947. Something interesting though: Thomas Edison did use "bug" in the same sense in a letter in 1878. And the term "debug" was used in 1945 (preceding the moth incident) in the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
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The bug that the term "debugging" originates from is a moth. It was found trapped in the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator by Admiral Grace Hopper.
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The terms "bug" and "debugging" are popularly attributed to Admiral Grace Hopper in the 1940s. While she was working on a Mark II computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system.
Admiral Grace Hopper in the 1940s. While she was working on a Mark II computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system.
moth
A moth stuck in a relay during Mark II development
a moth stuck inside a Mark II!
A moth..that got stuck lol