Thanks for this explanation.
Just thinking ... before the 'phone, folks would ring the doorbell
...
after the 'phone, folks would ring the
'phone ...
so I guess ping is the cross between
ring and pc -
interesting that's it's ping rather than p-ring p-ring p-ring ...
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Girvin R. Herr <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> Joel Madero wrote:
> <snip>
>
>
>> A ping is just a quick email (or IRC message, etc...) that says "hey, any
>> updates", some users even just say "ping" in IRC basically saying "hey,
>> you
>> around?"
>>
>>
>>
> <snip>
> Joel,
> "ping", another overloaded word:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Ping<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping>
>
> But those of us in the computer networking field assume:
>
> Ping, a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host
> is reachable across an IP network
>
> Colloquially, it is used as you define it - to send a quick message to
> someone to see what's going on in their life. As in
> "I haven't heard from him for a while - I'm going to ping him to see what
> he's up to."
> Girvin Herr
>
>
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