Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL the network utility "Ping" was written by a single person in an evening in 1983, and he named it after the sound a submarine sonar makesen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1634arrow-down16
arrow-up1628arrow-down1external-linkTIL the network utility "Ping" was written by a single person in an evening in 1983, and he named it after the sound a submarine sonar makesen.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square61fedilink
minus-squarescops@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down1·2 months agoIt was also backronym’d to mean Packet Internet Groper, but I get why not a lot of people would want to embrace that
minus-squarekn33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61arrow-down1·2 months agoI’ve never heard that before and I was better for it.
minus-squarethisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 months agoWell it goes along with the ethos of other commands suck as touch, finger, mount,…
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agotime to grope me some internet real quick. Just grabbing those packets and going all in
It was also backronym’d to mean Packet Internet Groper, but I get why not a lot of people would want to embrace that
I’ve never heard that before and I was better for it.
Well it goes along with the ethos of other commands suck as touch, finger, mount,…
time to grope me some internet real quick. Just grabbing those packets and going all in