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		moomin 38 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002) Too many people remember the “bug” story as “Grace Hopper invented the term ‘bug’” when the real takeaway is “Grace Hopper was very funny.”

lo_zamoyski 38 days ago [–]

And in colloquial speak, a grasshopper is, of course, a bug.

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