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Archive for February, 2007

Five things you didn’t know about PING

PING is one of the most popular programs ever created, but where did it come from? Here are five things you probably didn’t know about PING. PING was created by Mike Muuss in December 1983 on a BSD UNIX system to find a network problem. Muuss had to code ICMP support into the BSD UNIX [...]

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