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Retired USAF Engineer, retired college facilities engineer, active tinkerer and traveler.
I promise you that retail workers are not the source of your problems today. Don't take out your Black Friday frustration on them.

The first computer bug was a literal bug.

To be exact, a moth.

On Sept 9, 1947, a moth got trapped in Harvard University's Mark II computer -- causing multiple errors.

This bug disrupted the electronics inside the Mark II.

Here's a photo of that first computer bug.