File talk:First Computer Bug, 1945.jpg

Wrong year

Note that the year stated in the Description and Date should be 1947, not 1945. This is according to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. I can't see how to edit these. 216.123.197.30 03:14, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

OK, I made it "1945 or 1947" since we have a good ref for each. -Colfer2 (talk) 21:03, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Found some more refs, it was definitely 1947. The Harvard Mark II was not complete until that summer. I changed the description to explain this. -Colfer2 (talk) 21:36, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Etymology is Wrong

The claim of "thus introducing the term 'debugging a computer program'" is patently false. First, "Debugging" is attested in the OED in journal usage in 1945, before the moth was found (see above). Second, one does not write "first actual bug" unless there have previously been metaphorical bugs -- nor, if it were just "we found a moth in the relay", would one have actually stuck the moth in the logbook. (That is certainly not standard logbook practice.) The obvious reason for preserving the moth was that they had been talking about debugging things for at least a couple of years, so finding a literal bug was funny and they wanted to preserve the joke! 50.0.150.25 17:34, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Erroneous Rotation

Can someone please revert the 90-degree rotation? I'm not sure how to revert image changes. 50.0.150.25 17:45, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

 Done --Cwbm (commons) (talk) 09:08, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Historical?

The question is whether this individual moth is historically the most famous moth in history.... --Eliyahu S (talk) 13:30, 16 September 2018 (UTC)