The Day a Real Bug Broke a Computer

One machine had a real bug inside it. Send this to the coder in your life. In nineteen forty-seven, one of the first big computers in the world suddenly stopped working correctly, and nobody could find the problem.

Jedan stroj imao je pravog kukca unutra. Pošalji ovo programeru u svom životu. Tisuću devetsto četrdeset i sedme godine, jedno od prvih velikih računala na svijetu iznenada je prestalo ispravno raditi, i nitko nije mogao pronaći problem.

Engineers searched through the machine's huge wall of switches and wires until they found the cause stuck between two metal contacts: a dead moth. They removed it, taped its body into their logbook, and wrote a short note next to it about finding an actual bug inside the machine.

Inženjeri su pretraživali ogroman zid prekidača i žica u stroju dok nisu pronašli uzrok zaglavljen između dva metalna kontakta: mrtvog moljca. Izvadili su ga, zalijepili njegovo tijelo u dnevnik i napisali kratku bilješku pored njega o pronalasku pravog kukca unutar stroja.

The word bug already meant a small problem in a machine before that day, but the taped moth became famous anyway, and it is still kept in a museum. Ever since, fixing a computer problem has been called debugging, whether or not any actual insect is involved.

Riječ bug već je prije toga dana značila mali kvar u stroju, ali zalijepljeni moljac ipak je postao poznat, i još uvijek se čuva u muzeju. Otada se popravljanje računalnog problema zove debugging, bilo da je uključen pravi kukac ili ne.