Code Curiosities

The Bug That Launched a Thousand Ships (and Nearly Sank Them)

Episode Summary

In 1947, Grace Hopper found a moth stuck in a computer relay and taped it into her logbook with the note 'first actual case of bug being found.' But the real story of how we started calling software problems 'bugs' is way weirder than that famous moth. We'll dive into the unexpected maritime origins of debugging and how a Navy admiral's joke became the foundation of how we talk about broken code today.