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Technology (1829)
Types of Technology
General Purpose Technologies (the original GPTs)
Computers
Computer Security
Cybersecurity
Bugs (software)
First Bug (1945)
The First Computer Bug
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The First Computer Bug – Now I Know
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Bugs (software)
First Bug (1945)
Now I Know – Archives
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As early as 1870, Thomas Edison noted that the “little faults and difficulties” with modern machines were often attributed to “Bugs” (he capitalized the B), and computers weren’t invented at that point in history. But the term stuck, at least in engineering circles.