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ok not completely off topic :-)

Yes, I have seen that page before. The story is somewhat apocryphal tho. I can't find the direct quote right now, but here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

Wikipedia said:
While she was working on a Mark II computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system. Though the term computer bug cannot be definitively attributed to Admiral Hopper, she did bring the term into popularity. The remains of the moth can be found in the group's log book at the Naval Surface Weapons Center.
(emphasis mine -T)

Another excerpt on the etymology of the term "computer bug", also from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_bug#Etymology

Wikipedia said:
Hopper was not actually the one who found the insect, as she readily acknowledged. And the date was September 9th of 1947, not of 1945. The operators who did find it were familiar with the engineering term and, amused, kept the insect with the notation "First actual case of bug being found." Hopper loved to recount the story.

--T
 
'Bug' was already in use at Harvard. The techs found a real bug in the computer causing the problem, and hence the joke about debugging a system.

I think the claim that she denied the moth-in-the-relay story is overly strong. She was there, it was her team of techs, and she gladly went along with the joke. So we may not know which particular tech pulled the moth out, but the story basically stands.
 
Imagine if there had been a worm or snake instead. These days, worms unfortunately relate to computing, but computer snakes are less common.
 
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