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ping
Ping, the UNIX utility, was written in 1983 by Mike Muuss to probe a target machine and see if the network path to it is functioning correctly. It is one of the most ubiquitous of programs, and has gifted the vernacular with a number of neologisms. Many, but not all, of the following pingterms are derived from Muuss's creation:
Ping storm: A flurry of ping requests sent either to test a server's response to high traffic or as a form of DOS attack.
Ping of death: A malformed ping sent in an attempt to crash a machine.
Ping pong door: A ping pong table that fits in a doorway, designed by Tobias Franzel. Players stand in different rooms as they play.
Ping server: Blogs notify a ping server when their content has been updated.
Ping spam (or sping): Misusing a ping server to lure traffic to a site that is not a recent blog post.
No Self Pings: A Wordpress plug-in to make Wordpress stop sending pings from your site to your site when you post.
Sonar pingtones: Yes, you can make your cell phone ping you like submarine sonar.
Ping Zine: An online magazine about Web hosting (recent story: "Netfirms Now Accepting Applications for New .me Domain Names".)
Ping Records: A doowop label that operated out of the back of a record store at 4648 South Cottage Grove in Chicago for a few months in 1956.
Ping attribute: In tags in HTML 5, gives the URIs of the resources that are interested in being notified if the user follows the hyperlink.
Ping tunnel: A covert connection between two remote computers using ICMP echo requests and reply packets.
The Story About Ping: A beloved book in which a duck has adventures on the Yangtze river; the book received a different kind of fame when reviewed on Slashdot as though it were documentation for the UNIX utility.
The Sultans of Ping are available on iTunes.
Ping storm: A flurry of ping requests sent either to test a server's response to high traffic or as a form of DOS attack.
Ping of death: A malformed ping sent in an attempt to crash a machine.
Ping pong door: A ping pong table that fits in a doorway, designed by Tobias Franzel. Players stand in different rooms as they play.
Ping server: Blogs notify a ping server when their content has been updated.
Ping spam (or sping): Misusing a ping server to lure traffic to a site that is not a recent blog post.
No Self Pings: A Wordpress plug-in to make Wordpress stop sending pings from your site to your site when you post.
Sonar pingtones: Yes, you can make your cell phone ping you like submarine sonar.
Ping Zine: An online magazine about Web hosting (recent story: "Netfirms Now Accepting Applications for New .me Domain Names".)
Ping Records: A doowop label that operated out of the back of a record store at 4648 South Cottage Grove in Chicago for a few months in 1956.
Ping attribute: In tags in HTML 5, gives the URIs of the resources that are interested in being notified if the user follows the hyperlink.
Ping tunnel: A covert connection between two remote computers using ICMP echo requests and reply packets.
The Story About Ping: A beloved book in which a duck has adventures on the Yangtze river; the book received a different kind of fame when reviewed on Slashdot as though it were documentation for the UNIX utility.
The Sultans of Ping are available on iTunes.