Here’s a social media post prepared for LinkedIn, Twitter (X), or a blog, depending on your audience. I’ve assumed “Pingher” refers to the misspelling or shorthand for (Ping End-to-end Reporting), the internet performance monitoring project from SLAC/Stanford. If you meant something else, let me know and I’ll revise. Option 1: LinkedIn / Professional Blog (Detailed & Educational)
Respect the OGs of network observability. 👏 #Networking #InternetHistory #PingER
Before Cloudflare, before RIPE Atlas—there was PingER (1995). It measured internet health across 160+ countries with nothing but ICMP pings.
You don’t always need complex agents. Sometimes, a well-placed ping tells you everything. Option 2: Twitter / X (Short & Punchy)
They say the internet is a series of tubes. But how do you actually measure if those tubes are working? 🚰📡
Most people credit commercial tools like ThousandEyes or Kentik with internet performance monitoring. But the real pioneer? (Ping End-to-end Reporting).
Meet — one of the earliest global internet measurement projects (started in 1995 at SLAC). It sent tiny pings around the world to measure lag and packet loss, helping scientists see where the internet was fast… and where it wasn’t.