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.
As video games made their way into homes, their popularity skyrocketed and others soon began to develop competing systems. Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney created Atari Computers in 1972. In 1975, Atari released Pong as a home video game, leading to a huge increase in the popularity of video games. Since those early years, many different types of video games and consoles have come and gone. Today, Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's Playstation remain the two most popular video game consoles, while children and adults alike still enjoy playing video games on their computers and smartphones.