{"id":96115,"date":"2022-08-04T11:50:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T11:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/you-knew-the-first-recorded-computer-bug-was-a-literal-bug-right"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T11:50:53","slug":"you-knew-the-first-recorded-computer-bug-was-a-literal-bug-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/you-knew-the-first-recorded-computer-bug-was-a-literal-bug-right","title":{"rendered":"You knew the first recorded computer bug was a literal bug, right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As this year&#8217;s worn on, and new GPUs still somehow seem far away, I&#8217;ve grown ever more weary of digging through the daily deluge of graphics card rumours and leaks. But while trawling through the latest supposed information about Nvidia&#8217;s next-gen gaming and pro GPUs I was reminded of Dr. Grace Hopper, the first person to make famous a computer bug. Largely because it was a literal bug. Well, a moth. It is now a famous moth, which has a home in The Smithsonian Institution&#8217;s National Museum of American History. Taped to the very log book detailing its presence in the Harvard University&#8217;s Mark II computer. The link with future GPUs is that Dr. Grace Hopper is being immortalised in silicon as the architectural name for Nvidia&#8217;s next generation of professional graphics hardware, and the H[opper]100 Tensor Core GPU. It&#8217;s datacentre stuff, and won&#8217;t mean a lot to PC gamers, but we owe a lot to Dr. Hopper herself. She<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a moth stuck in a relay&#8230; and other fun tech facts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[303,1],"tags":[458,154,34],"class_list":["post-96115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-news","tag-bluetooth","tag-computers","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}