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History of Computing

In the year of my birth the world's first "bug" was named. Given my early career as a programmer, I feel this is appropriate or ironic - I can't decide which. Maybe it is just a happy coincidence.

See the History of Computing and find the year that references the following:

During the Mark-II programming project a maintenance engineer defines a "Bug" in a maintenance log. (A bug is an error in a program that causes the program to malfunction.)