Stupid American History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions by Gregory Leland
Author:Gregory, Leland [Gregory, Leland]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing LLC
Published: 2009-04-20T16:00:00+00:00
WOODROW WILSON WAS THE ONLY PRESIDENT WITH A PHD.
HE EARNED IT FROM JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY IN 1886.
WHAT’S BUGGIN’ YA?
In 1947, the U.S. Navy’s Mark II computer at Harvard University crashed after a moth got jammed in a relay switch. The operators removed the fried flutter-by and taped it in their logbook alongside the explanation of the occurrence. It’s a true story, but it doesn’t describe the origin of the term “bug” [as in “computer bug”]. A newspaper report from 1889, cited in the Oxford English Dictionary, related that Thomas Edison “had been up the two previous nights searching for a bug in his phonograph.” And the 1934 edition of Webster’s dictionary also gave the definition of bug as it related to a screw-up in a mechanical or electrical device.
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