It's also when the scope of those projects could be accomplished by one person.

And many of those one men were Dave Plummer

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,...

time to grope me some internet real quick. Just grabbing those packets and going all in

*since 1983.

I was in HS from 2001 to 2005, and it was the wild west. They had computer money galore, but the guys tasked with being in charge of them knew as much as we did, and they just could not compete with the teenage ingenuity. I remember using telnet to just shoot the shit with people all day, and eventually play MUDs in class. And trying to destroy the computer or the network from the inside was just a daily occurrence.

What was the rate of packets sent? Modern ping is typically setuided and has a limit of 1 per second if you're not root.

Man they really need to check for loops in the network, that sounds like a feedback loop. Although my experience only goes back to like 2012 so it might have been a older hardware thing

I believe it's technically called an "echo response", but "pong" is a very common unofficial name for it.

That name was already taken in the software world ;)

.gniP

This reminded me of a funny story in a party years ago. There was a Mac playing music on YouTube but after a couple of minutes the connection were lost and the music stop until someone clicked on something and the connection wake up and the music continue for a couple of more minutes just to go down again. I asked if I could try to fix it and the first thing I did was a ping, the first couple of packages got lost but then it connected and the music continued. Every couple of minutes some packages got lost but then it back again and the music didn't had any more problems for the night. The host of the party was all over me thanking me for saving the party and other people were asking me if I was a hacker or something.

Pong

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