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Guest_littlefranciscan_*
Posted 05 February 2007 - 07:04 PM

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I am always curious as to the foundations of words and terms and in computer lingo there are many everyday terms that are adopted as computer lingo:

One of those terms "bug" did originate with an actual mishap with a insect..the insect being a "moth"

The "First" Computer Bug

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TcM
Posted 06 February 2007 - 12:07 PM

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Well there was a mini contest about this on this forum a few weeks ago won by sidewinder if im not mistaken!!

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Posted 06 February 2007 - 12:48 PM

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Tcm9669 said:

Well there was a mini contest about this on this forum a few weeks ago won by sidewinder if im not mistaken!!

Yup, here is the thread: http://forum.codecal...m-bug-come.html

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Posted 10 February 2007 - 03:13 PM

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Some of the newbies may not know of that contest that has now passed thanks for pointing this out.

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Posted 17 February 2007 - 08:36 AM

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Yeah I read about that moth thing some time ago. I found it quite interesting.

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Posted 19 February 2007 - 06:58 PM

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I read that in readers digest, it's amazing eh?

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