Many of the breakthroughs and discoveries made in the tech world were simply inconceivable a century ago. From the advancement of the internet, phones, laptops and even social media. I mean who would have thought a century ago, every phone that we ever used is in an archive somewhere being used as a part of history. Who would have thought that the entire internet would blow up like it has a century ago?
What makes tech especially interesting for some is that it’s peppered with anecdotes and fun facts that add substance to a story and make them even more compelling. Have you by any chance used the word debugged? According to the Naval History and Heritage Command in 1947, computer pioneer Grace Hopper found herself working on a Mark II Computer at Harvard University. It was at this time that her associates discovered a moth had gotten trapped in one of the computer’s relays and was causing an error. The operators removed the moth and taped it in their log book, identifying it as the “first actual case of bug being found.” While this is the “modern” use case of finding a computer bug, the original use of the word dates further back in time to Thomas Edison, who in an 1878 letter used the term “bug” to refer to a technological glitch. While he worked on the quadruplex telegraph, he said it needed a “bug trap” to function properly
