Technology / Computers / PING: Packet Internet or Inter-Network Groper; a utility used to determine whether a particular computer is currently connected to the Internet. It works by sending a packet to the specified IP address and waiting for a reply. The computer acronym 'PING' was contrived to match the submariners' term for the sound of a returned sonar pulse.
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