To me, finger seemed to lapse the same way the old-school tilde-based 'personal website' gave way to Geocities et al -- people gradually shifted away from it.

To me, finger seemed to lapse the same way the old-school tilde-based 'personal website' gave way to Geocities et al -- people gradually shifted away from it. Remember John Carmack of id Software using a plan file to distribute Doom news? That was, to my own recollection, the last gasp of finger; everyone else I knew of had stopped using it years before he did.