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.
Today, the Pong Game is considered to be the game which started the video games industry, as it proved that the video games market can produce significant revenues. Nolan Bushnell founded Atari at 1972 in order to create games and ideas and license them to other companies for mass production.