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‘I gotta debug your computer’
It’s the classic IT line: “I gotta debug your computer” But did you know it originated with an actual bug? Engineers troubleshooting a computer malfunction found a dead bug on the circuit board. Was it a … A.) Cockroach, B.) Fly, C.) Moth or D.) Silverfish?
The answer: C.) Moth. In 1947, Harvard engineers discovered a moth was the cause of their error-prone Mark II. They removed it — a literal debugging! Speaking of debugging, if you’ve got moths in your pantry instead of your PC, you need these moth traps. They’re effective and disgusting — you won’t believe how many moths they catch. That’s not a tech tip; it’s a blech tip.
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