Where it all began

Tuesday, September 9th, 2003 | Geek Stuff

Today is the anniversary of the misery that I experience day in and day out. The US Naval Historical Center marks September 9, 1945 as the day Lt. Grace Hopper ‘debugged’ the first computer bug:

Moth found trapped between points at Relay # 70, Panel F, of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, 9 September 1945. The operators affixed the moth to the computer log, with the entry: “First actual case of bug being found”. They put out the word that they had “debugged” the machine, thus introducing the term “debugging a computer program”.

Share and Enjoy:
  • Facebook
  • TwitThis
  • Digg
  • LinkedIn
  • del.icio.us
  • Google
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Technorati
  • Pownce
  • Slashdot

1 Comment to Where it all began

geno
September 9, 2003

We are both geeks! You for posting that. Me for being interested in it!

Tweets

Posting tweet...

Powered by Twitter Tools.

Google Reader Shared Items

    Shared Items

     

    September 2003
    S M T W T F S
    « Aug   Oct »
     123456
    78910111213
    14151617181920
    21222324252627
    282930  

    Search

    Categories

    Archives