alt Hacker NewsIsn'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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vidarh • yesterday at 2:32 PM
The actual story is not myth. It just isn't the origin of the term.
Hopper's note didn't suggest the word was new, but was funny exactly because it was not.
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It's also more moth than reality.
Moths are, technically [0], not bugs.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera