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The first computer bug was actually a spider with ambition. Which explains modern software behavior.

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The famous first computer bug was a moth, found in 1947 in the Harvard Mark II computer and taped into a logbook by operators including Grace Hopper's team. The term 'bug' for a glitch predates this event.

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