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Embarrassingly, I was today years old when I learnt that dig used to be a) an acronym and b) what is stood for
by neerajk 3y ago
Embarrassingly, I was today years old when I learnt that dig used to be a) an acronym and b) what is stood for
- nurbel 3y agoand ping as well (learnt that from the mastodon thread)!
- medler 3y agoPing was originally named after sonar pings. Then later some guy came up with a weird acronym for a thing he did not invent. We don’t have to acknowledge it as a legitimate acronym. And as far as I can tell, the backronym is not a part of ping man pages, unlike with dig
- ghaff 3y agoNever knew that although it seems like the acronym was contrived after the obvious "ping" (as in sonar) was coined.
- hk__2 3y agoI didn’t knew that either, and there’s nothing embarrassing about it: pretty much every CLI tool that doesn’t have a clear name is an acronym (grep, cd, pwd, dd, yacc, etc).