In $1873$ Thomas Edison was developing a quadruplex telegraph that allowed four signals to go over one wire however he came across an issue that he called a bug trap a false break in the message signal in a series of notes and letters he would frequently refresh reference the word bug to indicate technical glitch he was the earliest adopter of his definition of the word bug which of the following sentences can be a suitable topic sentence for the above text have you ever wondered about the origins of the term bug in relation to technology be in the context of technology do you know why the word bug is ambiguous and how it became a popular term see did you know that the word bug predates the computer age and when the first case of a computer bug was actually recorded D let's dive into the topic of the reasoning behind the first use of the term bug related to technology as well it's real word consequences