Color photo of a page in one of Grace Hopper's logs. The page is yellowed, and an actual bug removed from one of the computers is taped in place with cellophane tape that is now a dark yellow-tan. Next to the bug it reads "First actual case of a bug being found."

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 15:26:11 UTC Robert McNees

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   So #GraceHopper is very directly responsible for some major innovations in the way we use computers.

   But if you see other posts about her today, you are likely to see a few things attributed to her that she is *not* responsible for. Let me explain.

   It is true that on September 9, 1947, Hopper or a member of her team pulled a moth from one of the relays in Harvard’s Mark II computer and taped it in their logbook. But she did not invent the terms “bug” or “debugging.”

   Image: Smithsonian