Before Cloudflare, before RIPE Atlas—there was PingER (1995). It measured internet health across 160+ countries with nothing but ICMP pings.
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Meet — one of the earliest global internet measurement projects (started in 1995 at SLAC). It sent tiny pings around the world to measure lag and packet loss, helping scientists see where the internet was fast… and where it wasn’t. Pingher
It mapped the digital divide before we had a name for it. Pingher