How is the shortest computer lie? - "It works!"
Something still does that. Not too many viruses, worms and bugs are to blame. Why
the computer virus called that, is still understandable. But why are computer errors "bugs" called? What has a bug something to do with a computer error?
The answer is relatively far in the past. The year 1945 registered - as the computer pioneer Grace Hopper and her colleagues were working on a computer system. At that time, the computers still huge, room-sized monsters. It was what today we like to computer related: The system crashed and now no longer functioned properly. Something had triggered a short circuit.
after the first hours of troubleshooting, the cause of the short-circuit found. And here we encounter the beetles: It had in fact such a creature (English: Bug) lost in the great calculating machine and was charred between the tubes.
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| We then times the computing machine out of action! © Gitti Moser pixelio.de / | |
He was the first computer error caused . And the "thanks" to this day, all bugs "bug" mentioned.
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