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First off, happy 9-09-09. It is considered a “Devil” day. 999 is 666 upside down. And mud spelled backwards is dum (see Looney Tunes for the reference).

1945 – Grace Hopper is forever immortalized in the computer world as the first person to find a bug in a computer system. Litterally. The bug was a moth in between Relay #70 on Panel “F” of the Harvard Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator.

From there on end, “Bug” meant a problem in a computer system. I guess once the moth was removed, the word “Debug” was also added.BTW – The relay functioned properly after the moth was removed.

1947 – It sounds like that same relay finally failed 2 years later.

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Other items in the Day in Tech History:

• The first TRS-80 is sold
• Sony releases the Playstation
• 9/9/99 (in 1999 that is)

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OK, so this weeks’ TWITH went over – 10.5 minutes over to be exact. However it is a JAM packed show with lots of history. So sit back and enjoy.

Some of the history we talked about:

• Cinco De Mayo
• Atari 400
• First Internet Banning
• Jaguar
• Windows 98
• Altair 8080
• iMac
• Millionaire calculating machine

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New computer with ustream – Brett Farve and Jeff Healey – Fish Tank issues – PS3 – iPod/Zune Giveaway extended.

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On this Day:
1995 – Free Internet Chess Server brought Online

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