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Main on November 14th, 2011 by Pingdom
Since it was Father’s Day here in Sweden yesterday – yes we know it varies around the world – we thought we’d pay homage to some of the people behind the Internet as we know it today.
Some of the obvious choices would include Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn for TCP/IP, Vannevar Bush for much of the conceptual thinking behind the Internet, Ted Nelson for coining the word hypertext, Tim Berners-Lee for the World Wide Web, Marc Andreeseen for co-authoring Mosaic, and many others.
But why go for the obvious? We thought it would be fun to give some credit to a few lesser-known contributors to some technology or product that is a part of Internet history. These are guys who have made important contributions that affect us all but that may not have received the same accolades as others. So even though this didn’t exactly turn out to be a Father’s Day post, let’s take a look.
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Main on October 3rd, 2008 by Pingdom
Ever since the iPhone launched here in Sweden we have been in love with it. Considering that we here at Pingdom deal with servers, networks and the Internet on a daily basis, we have evaluated a lot of iPhone apps aimed specifically at sysadmins and webmasters.
In our opinion, the iPhone can be extremely useful to administrators responsible for keeping servers, networks and websites up and running. Loaded with the right applications, it becomes an on-the-move toolbox for when work needs to be done but there’s no computer nearby.
This article lists 12 applications that will turn an iPhone into a veritable Swiss Army knife for any sysadmin, webmaster or network technician.
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Main on June 5th, 2008 by Pingdom
When troubleshooting network or DNS problems related to your website, server or other online services, it can be very useful to have access to online tools that can help you narrow down the problems. This article contains 14 useful online tools that can help you with this. And they are all free. We will go [...]
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Pingdom on September 4th, 2007 by Pingdom
A friend of ours was out driving the other day and came across this sign. Pingbo, we now know, is a tiny village a good part north of our current HQ in Sweden. A very handsome name indeed, considering the similarities to Pingdom, but too bad the infrastructure and communications probably aren’t very good. Above: [...]
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Pingdom on July 24th, 2007 by Pingdom
We have released a public forum for Pingdom Tools, our set of free tools for webmasters. The idea is that you now have a place to post feature requests and questions, discuss test results and share tips and tricks (and, God forbid, post any bugs you may find). “Helpful resource” are the keywords here, just [...]
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Main on June 1st, 2007 by Pingdom
Ping is the favorite tool of network administrators for testing connectivity and response time over networks, but is there a limit to how fast response times can get? Of course there is. The answer is c. Ultimately response time over a network is limited by the speed of light. In a vacuum, light travels with [...]
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Main on February 2nd, 2007 by Pingdom
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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