The first actual computer bug was recorded, 9/09/1999 and Service Pack 1 is released for Windows XP. All on today’s On This Day from TEST Huddle.
1945 – The First Actual Computer Bug
The first actual computer bug was found on this day in 1945 at the Naval Weapons Center in Dahlgren, Virginia. In the log book of the Harvard Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator, Grace Murray Hopper records the discovery of the first actual computer “bug” by the computer’s operators at 3:45pm. IT is actually a physical bug, a moth got stuck in Relay #70 on Panel “F” of the machine. After extracting the moth, it was taped it into the logbook along with the official report. The urban legend will crop up that this was the first-ever use of the word ‘bug’ in this context, but that’s not true. In fact Thomas Edison used the term bug when discussing electrical circuits as early as the 1870s. It is, however, the first time the term “debug” is used.
1999 – 9/9/99
The date 9/9/99, which was a cause for concern among many programmers, causes far fewer difficulties than feared among programs designed to acknowledge “9999″ as an End Of File (EOF) marker.
2002 – SP1 is released for Windows XP
Microsoft releases Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows XP. The update has a number of features including USB 2.0 support and a Set Program Access and Defaults utility.Also, for the first time, users could control the default application for activities such as web browsing which had not benn possible before as well as instant messaging. Users could also choose to hide access to some of Microsoft’s bundled programs.
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