{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Bit Shift (bitshift)'s status on Thursday, 03-May-12 20:15:31 UTC","author_name":"Bit Shift (bitshift)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/bitshift","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/1322857","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/8494\" class=\"url\" title=\"John H.\"><span class=\"fn nickname\">crusader8<\/span><\/a><\/span> Yeah, sonar pings are the very start of the term, as far as I know. But even within the more limited sphere of the internet, it predates Facebook by a _long_ while."}