The History of Ping - By Terry Slattery
Everyone doing networking these days knows about the ping program. What is often not known is how it originated. I happened to be a by-stander and was able to see it being created. The real story about ping is found on a web page written by Mike Muuss, the author of the original version of ping:
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Who's Mike ?
At the bottom of the article it mentions Mike, I searched the page but there appears to be no mention of who Mike is.From the flow of the article, from first person describing the creation of ping, to first person talking about "visiting Mike the evening he created ping" I'm assuming Mike write ping, and Emmanuel Conde or Terry Slattery wrote the article.
It's all very confusing, or maybe I've not had enough coffee.
Mike is Mike Muus
Google him. :)