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Re:The story of the first “computer bug” is a pile of lies by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:12AM (#32521174)
or for the First Battle of Bull Run during the Civil War.
Re:The story of the first “computer bug” is a pile of lies by SilasX on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:38AM (#32521549)
Yes! IIRC there was an Encyclopedia Brown[1] case where he unmasks a fraudulent Civil War relic that had the inscription "for the First Battle of Bull Run", on the grounds that no one at the time would have called it the "First".

[1] Kid-detective series where the titular character, Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, solves crimes by finding inconsistencies that require domain knowledge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Brown

Re:The story of the first “computer bug” is a pile of lies by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:56AM (#32521783)
Yeah, it was the “Case of the Civil War Sword”.

https://brownencyclopedia.tumblr.com/post/13020192322/the-ca...