Ping is a program that sends a series of packets over a network or the Internet to a specific computer in order to generate a response from that computer. The other computer responds with an acknowledgment that it received the packets. Ping was created to verify whether a specific computer on a network or the Internet exists and is connected.
Some have claimed that the word “ping” is actually an acronym for “Packet Internet (or Inter-Network) Groper”, deliberately contrived to play on the fact that pinging with a computer is similar …