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Where does the word "bug" in software come from?
Engineers used "bug" for a fault in a machine long before computers; Thomas Edison used the word in the 1870s. The well-known story is from 1947, when operators of the Harvard Mark II found a moth in a relay and taped it into the logbook. That made the word famous, but it is not where it began.
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All questions →Steve Wozniak designed and hand-built the Apple I in 1976. Steve Jobs proposed selling it, and Apple was founded that year. The Apple I was sold as an assembled circuit board; buyers added their own case, keyboard and display.
Read more →There is no single first ERP. The term "enterprise resource planning" was coined by the research firm Gartner in 1990. ERP grew out of the material requirements planning (MRP) systems of the 1960s and 1970s, which planned materials for manufacturing and were later extended to finance, sales and the rest of the business.
Read more →Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist working at CERN, proposed the World Wide Web in 1989 and built the first web server and browser in 1990. The web is a service that runs on the internet, which is older. CERN released the web software into the public domain in 1993.
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