In a message to Bill Wunsch  Joe Kofron wrote:
 JK> BW> What wasn't stolen from somewhere else?  They still can't aggree
 JK> on where
 JK>   > the term "bug" came from, as in buggy software or equipment.
 JK> Back about 1955 the kids did a dance called the 'Bug'. They would
 JK> throw an imaginary bug to their partner who would try to catch the
 JK> bug on various parts of their body before they would throw it back
 JK> to their partner. I'm sure the expression 'Don't bug me' came from
 JK> this dance.
The term "buggy software" is supposed to have originated with the late 
Commodore Grace Hopper.  As a pioneer in data processing Commodore Hopper ran 
one of the early U.S. Navy DP labs.  The computer used relays.  One day a 
moth stopped one of the relays from closing and making contact.  A sailor 
removed the moth from the relay and entered in the official Navy log that he 
had "de-bugged the computer."  --  Commodore Hopper repeated that story often 
and I had the pleasure of hearing her tell that story in person in 1974.
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