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The first game bug was an actual beetle in an arcade cabinet. Which explains why glitches still feel alive.

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The famous first computer bug was a moth found in a relay of Harvard's Mark II computer in 1947, logged by the team including Grace Hopper. It was in a computer, not an arcade cabinet, and the word bug was already in use.

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