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Retired Navy Admiral Grace Hopper, a pioneer in the early days of computers, had a main frame computer that was not working properly. She opened it up in the back and found a moth that had died and was touching two connections shorting them out. She pulled out the moth and stated in the official Naval Log Book that the computer had been debugged and was working fine. She taped the moth to the page of the log book. Since then the term was used when troubleshooting hardware/software of computers.

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