1 : the act of conducting or conveying. 2a : transmission through or by means of a conductor; also : the transfer of heat through matter by communication of kinetic energy from particle to particle with no net displacement of the particles â compare convection, radiationb : conductivity.
The name ping-pong was in wide use before English manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd trademarked it in 1901. The name Ping-Pong then came to be used for the game played by the rather expensive Jaques equipment, with other manufacturers calling theirs table tennis.
Pong, also by Bushnell and Dabney, used the same television set design as Computer Space, and was not released until 1972 â a year after Computer Space. It was the first successful arcade video game and led to the popularization of the medium.