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The term ''bug'', in the sense of defect, dates back at least to 1878 when [[Thomas Edison]] wrote "little faults and difficulties" in his inventions as "Bugs".
A popular story from the 1940s is from [[Admiral Grace Hopper]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JT0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA33 |title=InfoWorld Oct 5, 1981 |date=5 October 1981 |access-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-date=September 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190918012636/https://books.google.com/books?id=JT0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA33&lpg=RA1-PA33&focus=viewport |url-status=live }}</ref> While she was working on a [[Harvard Mark II|Mark II]] computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a [[moth]] stuck in a relay that impeded operation and wrote in a log book "First actual case of a bug being found". Although
Similarly, the term ''debugging'' was used in aeronautics before entering the world of computers. A letter from [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]], director of the [[WWII]] atomic bomb [[Manhattan Project]] at Los Alamos, used the term in a letter to Dr. [[Ernest Lawrence]] at UC Berkeley, dated October 27, 1944,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/physics/images/bigscience25.jpg |title=Archived copy |access-date=2019-12-17 |archive-date=2019-11-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191121001830/https://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/physics/images/bigscience25.jpg |url-status=live }}</ref> regarding the recruitment of additional technical staff.
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