if you know at list answer what the bug was :)
I thought that I found something real cool tonight but was just wondering if anyone here know's about it. so I thought it would be fun to make a question out of what I found.
2007-01-06 18:19:27 · 7 answers · asked by frogonmybutt 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
The "bug" was actually a moth!
2007-01-06 18:24:57 · answer #1 · answered by Ash Anne 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I found this on the internet: http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwordorigins/bugs?view=uk
Was the first computer bug a real insect?
The story is told that one of the early electromechanical computers suffered a failure because a hapless insect had crawled into the vitals of the machine and been squashed between the contacts of a relay. The incident was written up in the log-book and spread from there throughout the whole of the infant computer industry. However, although the account seems to be genuine, the word is older: the event was recorded as an amusement for posterity precisely because the term 'bug' was already in use. The term in fact originates not with computer pioneers, but with engineers of a much earlier generation. The first example cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is from the Pall Mall Gazette of 11 March 1889:
Mr. Edison, I was informed, had been up the two previous nights discovering 'a bug' in his phonograph - an expression for solving a difficulty, and implying that some imaginary insect has secreted itself inside and is causing all the trouble.
It seems clear from this that the original 'bug', though it was indeed an insect, was in fact imaginary.
Perhaps this answer will be helpful....
2007-01-06 18:27:59 · answer #2 · answered by Fabulous Flight Attendant 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a bug is not a virus but a programming mistake. The program will not work as expected when it has a bug...just like the human body will not work as expected when you have an illness caused by a bug or germ.
Usage of the term "bug" to describe inexplicable defects has been a part of engineering jargon for many decades and predates computers and computer software; it may have originally been used in hardware engineering to describe mechanical malfunctions.
For instance, Thomas Edison wrote the following words in a letter to an associate in 1878:
“ It has been just so in all of my inventions. The first step is an intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise—this thing gives out and [it is] then that "Bugs"—as such little faults and difficulties are called—show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached."
2007-01-06 18:27:18 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was a real bug- a moth- that was found in an early computer. I read this a long time ago
2007-01-06 18:22:33 · answer #4 · answered by beeper 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I saw that one Who Wants to be a Millionaire once. There really was a bug that got into a computer but I forget what bug it was. A fly?Cockroach....I don't remember.
2007-01-06 18:22:51 · answer #5 · answered by ... 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The relationship may be between a human having a bug, which is a virus, and therefore, a computer's bug would be a virus.
2007-01-06 18:21:44 · answer #6 · answered by arangerrunningonempty19 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One of the early big-iron computers was literally troubled by a bug crawling into the works, and it spit out some bad data as a result.
2007-01-06 18:22:24 · answer #7 · answered by meandlisa 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋