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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DoK U Mint, post: 789657, member: 18848&quot;]<b>My Bad</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS">The term in fact originates not with computer pioneers, but with engineers of a much earlier generation. The almost first example cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is from the Pall Mall Gazette of 11 March 1889:</font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr. Edison, I was informed, had been up the two previous nights discovering &#039;a bug&#039; in his phonograph - an expression for solving a difficulty, and implying that some imaginary insect has secreted itself inside and is causing all the trouble. </font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Comic Sans MS">It seems clear from this that the original &#039;bug&#039;, though it was indeed an insect, was in fact imaginary.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Century Gothic">It was supposed to be a trick question but you get more than partial credit because I included the word &quot;computer&quot; in the question.</font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic">So I have to relinquished credit to Adm. Hopper because she gives credit to having found the 1st &quot;Physical&quot; evidence of having found a &quot;bug&quot; in a &quot;computer&quot;....back when SHE was young. And she DOES give credit to another when they say &quot;First BUG actually found.&nbsp; </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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