From Bill Bryson's book, Made In America:
"In 1945, an early US Navy vacuum tube computer crashed. Its operators searched in mystification for a cause until they found a moth crushed between the contact points of an electrical relay switch. After that, whenever a computer was down, it was said to need debugging."
Therefore the moth was the first known computer bug. I never expected those terms to be so literal! Ha!
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