The term “computer bug” was first coined by Grace Hopper in 1945. A “bug” was an actual physical example of a problem that she and her team were working on. One day, while she was working on a Harvard Mark II computer, she found a moth caught in one of the electrical relays. She removed the moth and taped it into her logbook with the comment “debugging” (the act of finding and fixing errors). The term “bug” stuck, and is now widely used to describe software problems.

When was the term bug coined?

The term “bug” was coined in the …