Engineers working on the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947 found a moth jammed inside the machine’s relay hardware. They taped the dead insect into the operations log book and scrawled a now-famous ...

There is an interesting story from the history of technology behind the term "computer bug." Surprisingly, the word "bug" in this context originated not from a virus, but from an actual insect. The ...

How an irritating acquaintance became shorthand for a computer glitch.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. American engineers have been calling ...

I’ve written more than a few myth-busting articles for Popular Science, and many of the myths are centuries old. But ...