But how did this name originally come into place in engineering??
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Sorry, I’m firmly in Ada Lovelace’s camp for credit for first use of the term. https://medium.com/the-mumblings-of-a-security-professional/a-bug-in-the-machine-286800f71cbc
The phrasing of “First actual case of bug being found” definitely sounds like it’s a reference to an existing term. Nowadays maybe people would say “a literal bug lol”.
True. I was more responding to the article that makes no reference to Ada Lovelace. She’s deserves to be mentioned when that topic comes up.
Another similar naming convention in Danish is how a electric jumper/shunt (a deliberate short circuit) is called a louse. The singular form of lice.