Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day 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-square50fedilinkarrow-up1554arrow-down15
arrow-up1549arrow-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 · 1 day agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squarescops@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down1·1 day 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-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·15 hours agotime to grope me some internet real quick. Just grabbing those packets and going all in
minus-squarekn33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up58arrow-down1·1 day agoI’ve never heard that before and I was better for it.
minus-squarethisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 day agoWell it goes along with the ethos of other commands suck as touch, finger, mount,…
It was also backronym’d to mean Packet Internet Groper, but I get why not a lot of people would want to embrace that
time to grope me some internet real quick. Just grabbing those packets and going all in
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,…