On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 07:00:44PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
That's awesome. And finger, back in the days of
innocence before scammers
and viruses and black hat hackers, was super useful. I hacked my finger
server to do all sorts of stuff, it was sort of ftp/ps/who and who knows
what else in one.
I miss the days when finger was a thing. Perhaps poorly named (perhaps
not), whatever, it was simpler time.
Just to mention that finger is *still* a thing in many modern pubnix
systems, such as circumlunar.space or tildeverse.
My2Cents