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What are some of the famous bugs in the world of computer science?

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Lela McKeever
·Dec 5, 2016

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At 3:45 p.m., Grace Murray Hopper records the first computer bug in her log book as she worked on the Harvard Mark II. The problem was traced to a moth stuck between a relay in the machine, which Hopper duly taped into the Mark II's log book with the explanation: “First actual case of bug being found.”

Reading this fine piece of history, I had this question in mind; what are some of the famous bugs, amusing or not; that the world of Computer Science has ever seen?