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 18:21:21 · 4 answers · asked by frogonmybutt 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
The bug was a moth. It caused a problem in an IBM mainframe computer years ago and hence the term "bug" was created...
It was also a million dollar question on the origianal "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" show in it's first season with Regis Philbin where the contestant won (easy question for $1,000,000)
2007-01-06 18:28:27 · answer #1 · answered by Lee W. 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I remember from a computer class a zillion years ago, they said that some early computer some where, back when computers were as big as a whole room, that a moth or some kind of bug actually got inside the computer and shorted something out. (sorry for the run-on) That was back when they still used those tubes and it took 100's of them to do what transistors and the chips finally starting doing.
2007-01-07 02:32:17 · answer #2 · answered by Buttercup Rocks! 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Back in the day when computers used to be really big, actual insects would get into the thing and keep it from working properly. That's where the term "there's a bug" comes from :p
2007-01-07 02:27:23 · answer #3 · answered by ♥ AnGeL oF cLaRiTy ♥ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was literally a ( insect, bug , MOTH ) that messed up a computer years ago and so now the poor little buggers get blamed for all our glitches!
2007-01-07 07:32:42 · answer #4 · answered by Penny Mae 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋