Timeline for What was Pong called in Britain?
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Dec 24, 2020 at 20:02 | comment | added | stackoverblown | Yeah! Ping? What is Ping? Never heard of it. It was always Pong. | |
| Dec 24, 2020 at 2:35 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Dec 23, 2020 at 17:43 | vote | accept | rwallace | ||
| Dec 23, 2020 at 11:24 | comment | added | IMSoP | Living in the UK "for many years" isn't particularly great credentials for confirming what something was named nearly 50 years ago. I've lived in the UK all my life, but that life started 10 years after Pong was developed, so my personal recollection is pretty much irrelevant here. | |
| Dec 23, 2020 at 9:35 | comment | added | Chris H | @MartinBa's right, though IMO the Wikipedia article plays down the most relevant meaning - someone irritating and grumpy. | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 23:28 | comment | added | dave | Torvalds has said that he has two major pieces of software named after him -- "Linux" and "git". | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 21:00 | comment | added | Martin Ba | @OmarL - see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(slang) esp. footnote 11 | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 17:42 | comment | added | Omar and Lorraine | What other meaning is there for git | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 17:32 | comment | added | user3067860 | @dotancohen "Git" was named with the British meaning in mind. | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 16:56 | comment | added | Omar and Lorraine | The same, git and gimp | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 16:48 | comment | added | dotancohen | What do you guys call Git? Or the Gimp? | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 10:39 | comment | added | Michael Graf | Yes, same here -- when I lived in the UK (late 90s/early 2000s), it was definitely known as Pong. But then again, that was 25 years after the fact. | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 8:13 | history | answered | Omar and Lorraine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |