Bug: Word History Connections

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Some entomology -- and etymology! From British folklore to open source computing, the history of the word “Bug”.
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Комментарии : 28

@ReidarWasenius 4 года назад

A highly enjoyable trip! Time well spent. :-)

@lafregaste 3 года назад

kind of knew the obvious bug (insect) to bug (virus) but I never knew of the family tree behind both. Fascinating.

@susanmcmaster5810 9 лет назад

This bug tour ties together the most astonishing different elements -- didn't know it had so many legs. Perhaps the requirements of decorum led to leaving out of one of the well known "bug" words?

@patrickhodson8715 6 лет назад

Susan McMaster ???

@mcmasti 9 лет назад

Very good! You disabused me of my common but incorrect belief that a moth originated the first use of the term "bug". And I can add another word: as kids in England, our word for what Canadians call boogers was "bogles". I wonder if this was just our local usage, or if it was a widely-used term in England.

@mattymoowhite 6 лет назад

When you said "etymology and etymology" I thought you were going to bring in the French for "ant" formeaux giving the name for formic acid, and thence formaldehyde, and chloroform (H-C=O-OH, H-C=O-H, and H-C Cl³ respectively)

@leod-sigefast 4 года назад

That is from Latin Formica. French got it from that. Science got it from the Latin.

@SuperManning11 6 лет назад

Brilliant, as always. Thank you for these great videos and the stories you use to tell the fascinating history of our language.

@Alliterative 6 лет назад

Thank you!

@TheAnubis57 7 лет назад

Don't forget Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Gold-Bug" published in 1843. It also had a cryptogram to be solved by the story's characters.

@Alliterative 7 лет назад

Oh, I hadn't thought of that connection... must go and look it up to read it! Thanks!

@patrichausammann 6 лет назад

Yes, I agree with TheAnubis57. It seems that Edgar Allan Poe liked cryptography very much.

@typograf62 8 лет назад

My world just expanded. Thanks. But - G.M. Hopper did not create the first programming language. That honour goes to Konrad Zuse for Plankalkül, although it was not implemented. Hopper is generally named the Mother of COBOL but she had worked on other and simpler programming languages before (as I was told a long time ago).

@Alliterative 8 лет назад

Oh, that's interesting, I'll have to look into that story, I don't know it. Thanks!

@xero_chance818 3 года назад

Your style is fan-fucking-tastic mate and I really learn from your presentation. Thank you Bruv.

@ThatsAwesomeAndStuff 9 лет назад

Aw yeah, new video. Glad grading season is over.

@Alliterative 9 лет назад

ThatsAwesomeAndStuff Thanks! Yeah, so am I!

@asciisynth 4 года назад

The word 'bug' certainly preserves its scarier connotation, in the context of computer programming.

@RonJohn63 6 лет назад

1:42 Bugbears live on in Dungeons and Dragons.

@dark_fire_ice 5 лет назад

I always use bug to mean a small pest

@ShotgunAFlyboy 6 лет назад

you should port some of your videos to bitchute or minds.

@stargatis 3 года назад

Bug Hall a child star

@realar 4 года назад

Why is it always Edison? First hello, now bug as an error? UGH!

@bumpty9830 4 года назад

"The idea of a patent is to allow the inventor to exclusively profit from the invention for a period of time." Yep, that's the idea. But as you pointed out, many of "Edison's" patents were invented by others, and the same is often true today. Very often the "person" who exclusively profits from a patent these days is actually a corporation. The inventors are paid a nominal sum, while corporations control the technology. And in many important cases, the corporations owning the patent don't even produce it for exclusive sale, but rather make the technology entirely unavailable to protect other lines of business. Yet another disgusting feature of Capitalism.

@burbanpoison2494 6 лет назад

3:36 That guy on who wants to be a millionaire twenty years ago has to give the money back now... Seems like the kind of jargon that would have been used by mechanics and engineers before computers came about. Just a guess.