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Seeing that it's also in this book (which I would like to buy, btw) I can't help but comment on the myth of the 'first bug' in computing: it's a historical fake, see for example here[1]

[1] https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-story-of-the-first-comput...

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It's not a fake. It's just misattributed to Grace Hopper.

As for the claim that it's the origin of the word bug, that's just the typical exaggeration that befalls many stories. Memetic mutation turns everything into a story about superlatives. The text of the log book itself makes it clear that this is just the first time that the bug has been literally found, a comment that only makes sense if the phrase was already firmly established.

mmh we are saying the same thing, so I suppose there was a linguistic misunderstandig, English is not my native language

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