14 JULY 2023
This week's tech trivia:
Can you
guess how
the term
"bug" was
born in
computer
science
?
Give it your best shot!
A) Grace Hopper found a moth playing havoc in the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947 and hence birthed the term "bug".
B) The term "bug" was first used by Alan Turing when he discovered a curious caterpillar strolling inside his computer in 1950.
C) It was John von Neumann who, upon finding a spider weaving its web inside his computer in 1945, first referred to the issue as a "bug".
Keep scrolling to find out the right answer
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