The Story of the PING Program

Yes, it's true! I'm the author of ping for UNIX. Ping is a little thousand-line hack that I wrote in an evening which practically everyone seems to know about. :-) I named it after the sound that a sonar makes, inspired by the whole principle of echo-location. In college I'd done a lot of modeling of sonar and radar systems, so the "Cyberspace" analogy seemed very apt. It's exactly the same paradi

[naokton]

PINGプログラムのおはなし

[kshimizu1226]

PINGって何の略だろうって思ったら、略じゃないの？