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PingER: The Forgotten Pioneer That Tracked the Internet’s Growth
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Before Cloudflare, before RIPE Atlas—there was PingER (1995). It measured internet health across 160+ countries with nothing but ICMP pings. Pingher
Without PingER, we wouldn’t have the same understanding of the digital divide or the tools to monitor global networks. Next time you run a speed test, thank a 30-year-old ping. ❤️ If by “Pingher” you meant a person, a place, a brand, or something else entirely (e.g., a nickname, a typo for “Pincher” or “Ping He”), just let me know and I’ll rewrite the post from scratch.
They say the internet is a series of tubes. But how do you actually measure if those tubes are working? 🚰📡 PingER: The Forgotten Pioneer That Tracked the Internet’s
Most people credit commercial tools like ThousandEyes or Kentik with internet performance monitoring. But the real pioneer? (Ping End-to-end Reporting).
Launched in 1995 by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, PingER was one of the first systems to actively measure internet health across international borders—long before “network observability” was a buzzword. Without PingER, we wouldn’t have the same understanding
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