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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Dec-2022 15:30:01 UTC Robert McNees

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   It’s probably fair to refer to the incident in Hopper’s log book as the first recorded occurrence of an actual bug in a computer. Indeed, she (or someone else) jokingly wrote "First actual case of bug being found" next to it.

   But claiming she originated the terms “bug” or “debugging” is wrong. By the way, the log book itself is at the Smithsonian Institute:
   https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_334663