Path: news.nzbot.com!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:22:32 -0500
From: Gooner7 <gooner7@gooner.com>
Subject: Re: gnip = ???
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1960s
References: <mf65idtpt5kqef1qe45ek65g1sg79uohvk@4ax.com>
<iif5idt2uaqtbqkbthoadc3cg8c5bp191q@4ax.com>
User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a
git.gnome.org/pan2)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-ID: <W96dnR4y8O8XU7_GnZ2dnUU7-IOdnZ2d@giganews.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:22:34 -0500
Lines: 36
X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com
X-Trace: sv3-bJGfT1nxbNLVISbEn9i7AteNMLgsX7dN9PuA47C3oSBsk/ybt7N7dR/FJxGX558uEDs77L+HxsKmGIR!u9I2vOSYGz5k60NePa17sOTR4RPbyho7If+hEi0qY8k2y3/MdWS3UiYc5m1sxOqqJME9Tdd7/g==
X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com
X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.40
X-Original-Bytes: 2370
X-Received-Bytes: 2492
X-Received-Body-CRC: 572740457
Xref: news.nzbot.com alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1960s:3971
On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:15:18 -0700, The Mad Doctor wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:39:26 -0600, www wrote:
>
>>gnip ???
>>
>>just curious. have not seen that word/acronym before
>
> Ah yes... the origin of "gnip".
>
> It's really quite simple... years ago, back in the 90s, the Internet
> (more specifically Usenet)
> was quite new (to the average user) and the term "ping" was being used
> at the beginning of text posts rather than "attention:" or "Hey You",
> etc, etc.
>
> Back then everyone was running trace routes to check their connection
> speeds and this was done by "pinging" a remote device or server (and
> that terminology was a leftover from the use of sonar).
>
> Bottom line: after years my fingers got tired (carpal finger syndrome?)
> of the same p i n g sequence so, to get the knots out of my fingers I
> simply started (somewhere back around 2002) to type it backwards.
>
> Hope that takes the mystery out of it <grin>
>
> The Mad Doctor
>
> Always remember..
> Those who computers would destroy,
> they must first drive insane.
Lol... I had been wondering the same thing. As soon as I read "ping" in
your reply, I knew.
That's brilliant. Cheers.
|
|