First computer bug found : Harvard Mark II at Harvard

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9 September, 1947

The first computer bug was found on 9th September 1947. It was an actual “bug”, a moth, which had lodged itself in the relay of the Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University. The machine had failed to function properly because of the bug.

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