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Cake day: December 26th, 2023

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  • Fun fact time:

    That’s why they’re called computer bugs.

    In 1947, the Harvard Mark II computer was malfunctioning. Engineers eventually found a dead moth wedged between two relay points, causing a short. Removing it fixed the problem. They saved the moth and it’s on display at a museum to this day.

    The moth was not okay.

    And to be fair, the word bug had been used to describe little problems and glitches before that incident, but this was the first case of a computer bug.