Bruce W. Perry
Bruce W. Perry是一位独立的Java软件开发人员及作家。自1996年以来,他为各种非赢利机构、设计和营销公司及广告代理商开发Web应用程序和数据库。在不从事编程和写作的时候,他喜爱骑自行车、在美国和瑞士登山。2004年春天,Perry结束了在Brandeis大学的软件工程硕士课程。他同他的妻子Stacy LeBaron、女儿Rachel和儿子Scott一起居住在美国马萨诸塞州的Newburyport。
The image on the cover of Ajax Hacks is ping pong paddles.Ping pong origi-
nated in Victorian England,played in the homes of the upper class,who
would use everyday household objects to create an indoor tennis “court.”A
row of books,for instance,would serve as a net,the top of a champagne
cork as a ball,and cigar box tops as paddles.Looking to capitalize on the
popularity of this “table tennis ”game,manufacturers began selling small
paddles constructed of wooden frames and parchment paper.The sound
that this early equipment made gave table tennis the name ping pong,which
was first trademarked in 1901.More innovations came in the early 1900s,
when players began using the modern equipment of celluloid balls and
wooden paddles covered in stippled rubber.Around the same time,orga-
nized tournaments began to spring up around England,and soon after that,
the game spread throughout the world.
Ping pong was introduced as an Olympic game in 1988.The incredible
speed and accuracy of modern players made the game difficult to follow on
television.In an effort to make the game more watchable,in 2000,the Inter-
national Table Tennis Association slowed down ping pong by introducing
larger balls and shortened the length of the games by decreasing the winning
score from 21 to 11.