Back in 2012, the last leap second brought big sites like Reddit, Yelp, and LinkedIn, but this time out, everything was smooth sailing — no leap second bug in sight. Still, even though we made it ...
On the evening of September 9, 1947, a strange silence fell over the Harvard Computation Laboratory. The Mark II electromechanical computerâ a colossal machine of whirring motors, clacking relays, and ...
On Sept 9, 1947, engineers found a moth stuck on one of the relay components of the Mark II computer at Harvard University. — US Naval Historical Center Online Library Photograph via Wikimedia Commons ...