[neerajk]

Embarrassingly, I was today years old when I learnt that dig used to be a) an acronym and b) what is stood for

[hk__2]

I 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).

[nurbel]

and ping as well (learnt that from the mastodon thread)!

[medler]

Ping 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]

Never knew that although it seems like the acronym was contrived after the obvious "ping" (as in sonar) was coined.