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A bug.

The story may be apocryphal, but supposedly an early programmer, possibly Grace Hopper or one of the people involved with the ENIAC, was trying to figure out why their primitive computer was not working correctly. They traced the problem to a board that held dozens of electromechanical relays. After inspecting it for a while, they found that an insect had crawled between two contact points as was preventing a circuit from completing. When asked what the problem was, the programmer replied that they "had found a bug".

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