American engineers have been calling small flaws in machines "bugs" for over a century. Thomas Edison talked about bugs in electrical circuits in the 1870s.
But how did this name originally come into place in engineering??
The phrasing of “First actual case of bug being found” definitely sounds like it’s a reference to an existing term. Nowadays maybe people would say “a literal bug lol”.
Edit: to be fair, OP doesn’t say that Hopper invented the term
The phrasing of “First actual case of bug being found” definitely sounds like it’s a reference to an existing term. Nowadays maybe people would say “a literal bug lol”.
Edit: to be fair, OP doesn’t say that Hopper invented the term
True. I was more responding to the article that makes no reference to Ada Lovelace. She’s deserves to be mentioned when that topic comes up.