Computer bugs, they can be as irritating as a swarm of bees, but rarely as beneficial as a bee colony. Any idea how the term gremlin rose and fell in popularity? Damned gremlins! always bugging out and screwing things up!
But the actual reasoning for the first use of the term "bug", in and of itself is a little hazy, to say the least, but it may have its origins in early English parlance. Some suggest it may have been derived from the Middle English Bugge which forms the basis for the term "bugbear" and "bugaboo".
In this sense, it shares a common source to terms like 'goblin' (Bögge from Low German) and may also share a linguistic evolution with the term "gremlin" which is also often used to describe seemingly mysterious mechanical malfunctions first coined by RAF pilot during WW2.
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