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by TrollStopper on February 6th, 2007
"The term bug results from an incident with the US Navy’s Harvard Mark II computer soon after the end of World War Two, in which a technician cured a fault by extracting a moth from between the contacts of a relay in the system. It is also said that this was the source of debug, the process of finding and removing errors from a computer program."
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http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bug1.htm
by H_mood on February 6th, 2007
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