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Finger is one of those ideas that worked only while the internet was a playground for the university labs. After all, it requires that a port is exposed to the
by digi_owl 10y ago
Finger is one of those ideas that worked only while the internet was a playground for the university labs.
After all, it requires that a port is exposed to the world for someone to read it.
- ucs 10y agoMuch like email, finger was a service usually hosted by your ISP/university/workplace. The daemon did not run on your own machine.
- bananaboy 10y agoYeah when I was at university (1998 - 2002) .plans were used by a lot of students as a primitive blogging mechanism. I also wrote some perl scripts to show .plans on the web, and even added some basic markup features. I bet a lot of people did that as their first experiments in cgi programming!
- tinus_hn 10y agoThe problem with finger is that it exposes information that is now considered sensitive while it provides very little benefit. And of course because it is an old protocol there were some security issues with the daemon. It's a neat idea but if you want to share information about yourself, why not have a webpage?