[ale] OT: Re: ping

[Jeff Lightner]

Inventor of Ping?  You mean Al Gore?  I'm assuming he invented that
along with the rest of the internet.  :-)

 

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On 8/22/06, Rev. Johnny Healey <rev.null at gmail.com> wrote:

I was under the impression that PING was a reference to the sound a
sonar makes.

This is according to the inventor of ping:
http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html
<http://ftp.arl.mil/%7Emike/ping.html> 


>From that article:
" >From my point of view PING is not an acronym standing for Packet
InterNet Grouper, it's a sonar analogy. However, I've heard second-hand
that Dave Mills offered this expansion of the name, so perhaps we're
both right. Sheesh, and I thought the government was bad about expanding
acronyms! :-)"
 

	 

	-Johnny

	
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