I believe it to be the bootstrap story as well. Although it is true that a bug got into the works on an old mainframe and now a "bug" in the software is derived from that fateful day.
Alot of our "technical jargon" comes from roots of this nature.
One of my keen observations (please note that this is another way of saying "in my opinion") is that Amigans hold the true spirit of the early computer pioneers. We tend to experiment and tweak our machines to get them to bend to our will -- or whatever we would like the machine to do. We of course are hybrid users and programmers mainly because to use the platform requires this as software is now mainly written user to user as opposed to being company to user or Big Freakin' Monopoly to user like the rest of the world.
I think as a community, we are more tied to our hardware when we write code. It seems that coding today equates to web applications or online applications and you basically have Applications to run your custom application instead of actually getting in there and "talking" to the hardware with machine code and so forth. Programming is mainly advanced word processing these days.
(Again, see my opinion) :-)
