But how did this name originally come into place in engineering??

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[–] 23 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

The phrasing of "First actual case of bug being found" definitely sounds like it's a reference to an existing term. Nowadays maybe people would say "a literal bug lol".

Edit: to be fair, OP doesn't say that Hopper invented the term

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