WsOTY? "New Cold War"; "to ping"

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> "To ping" -- to signal in an attempt to make a remote communications
> connection, which the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 apparently
> did for four hours after it went missing from radar.
>

  What is PING?


As a verb, _ping_ means "to get the attention of" or "to check for the
presence of" another party on line. The computer acronym (for Packet
Internet or Inter-Network Groper) was contrived to match the submariners'
term for the sound of a returned sonar pulse.

What is _ping_? - Definition from WhatIs.com - SearchNetworking.com

searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/ping
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