alt Hacker NewsKind of similar to the story about the origins of the word "bug" in software
If this would have caught on we might have called bugs mice
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rkomorn • yesterday at 10:53 AM
Isn't that story more myth than reality?
The history section of the Wikipedia entry for "bug" [1] suggests it predates computers by decades.
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Too many people remember the “bug” story as “Grace Hopper invented the term ‘bug’” when the real takeaway is “Grace Hopper was very funny.”