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Hong vs. Pong — What's the Difference?

Hong vs. Pong — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Hong and Pong

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Hong

(obsolete) hang

Pong

Pong is a table tennis–themed arcade sports video game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atari and originally released in 1972. It was one of the earliest arcade video games; it was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, but Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney were surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work and decided to manufacture the game.

Hong

A foreign trading company in China.

Pong

A stench, a bad smell.

Hong

A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage.
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Pong

(networking) A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.

Hong

To hang.

Pong

To stink, to smell bad.

Pong

To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it.

Pong

To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.

Pong

An unpleasant smell

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