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FigBug on July 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Story of the Ping Program (1997)

Mike was killed in a car accident in 2000. Nice to see his website is still up almost 20 years later.

ericmcer on July 30, 2019 | [–]

I was beaming from that story about the vocoder, that was a fast descent.

I frequently use ping to look like I know what I am doing when trying to fix connectivity problems.

pfdietz on July 30, 2019 | [–]

I knew Mike as an undergrad at Johns Hopkins. I'm still sad about his untimely death.

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