It's a nice story, but for an even earlier bug look at the first 'program' written by Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage. In one of Lovelace's letters to Babbage she mentions finding errors in their 'table and diagram' (the program): http://i.imgur.com/zxOya1n.png
That's why it says, "first actual case of bug being found". The term bug was used before, even before Ada. Grace Hopper talks about the situation as humorous because they found an 'actual' bug this time.
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It's a nice story, but for an even earlier bug look at the first 'program' written by Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage. In one of Lovelace's letters to Babbage she mentions finding errors in their 'table and diagram' (the program): http://i.imgur.com/zxOya1n.png
That's why it says, "first actual case of bug being found". The term bug was used before, even before Ada. Grace Hopper talks about the situation as humorous because they found an 'actual' bug this time.