From Richard Taylor
When my Apple Mac started behaving erratically recently I was amazed to
discover that the cause of the problem had been a spider’s nest.
Apparently the strong cooling fan had been drawing fluff and dust from the
room into the computer, providing the spiders with a perfect environment to live
in.
Dust and fluff provided material for their nest, and because the computer ran
almost 24 hours a day they had warm and dry conditions as well. Intrigued, I
decided to use the Internet to attempt to find any other people with similar
experiences. I was unable to find any record of such events since the “original”
bugs in the huge computers of the 1950s, which gave rise to the present day
useage of the word.
Have other readers discovered animals causing their computers to malfunction?
Or have computers been immune to invasion since the fifties? Will problems like
mine become more common as yet more computers become “connected to the Web”?
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