The First Computer Bug

Back in 1945, after WWII ended, the gargantuan Mark II computer which ran ordinance calculations for the U.S. Navy shut down, Technicians eventually found that a moth trapped between two of the machine’s relay points was the culprit. Navy personnel preserved the moth in the daily log (photo above) and noted the first actual case of a bug being found in a computer, hence computer bug.  However, the culprit had been used to describe a mechanical malfunction since Thomas Edison’s day. Compute experts say that 55,000 new malware programs are introduced over the Internet every day.