[jaapz]

Kind of similar to the story about the origins of the word "bug" in software

If this would have caught on we might have called bugs mice

[moomin]

Too many people remember the “bug” story as “Grace Hopper invented the term ‘bug’” when the real takeaway is “Grace Hopper was very funny.”

[lo_zamoyski]

And in colloquial speak, a grasshopper is, of course, a bug.

[rkomorn]

Isn't that story more myth than reality?

The history section of the Wikipedia entry for "bug" [1] suggests it predates computers by decades.

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(engineering)

[bregma]

It's also more moth than reality.

Moths are, technically [0], not bugs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera

[vidarh]

The actual story is not myth. It just isn't the origin of the term.

Hopper's note didn't suggest the word was new, but was funny exactly because it was not.