I love finger! Back in the early 90s, I wrote a thing that would let you see what was playing on the CD-ROM in my desktop Linux machine. I used some finger da

I love finger! Back in the early 90s, I wrote a thing that would let you see what was playing on the CD-ROM in my desktop Linux machine. I used some finger daemon that allowed scripts to be executed as part of a .plan. You would finger music@somethingorother.vanderbilt.edu and a shell script would call "cda" (a command-line version of xccd and it would look up the disc name and track names from CDDB, pipe it through some sed and awk-foo and send it out to the client. I got fingered from around the world all day long. There were all sorts of fun things you could finger around the 'net. My favorite was a VAX at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. The latency was several seconds. I posted about this years later on Slashdot and a former sysadmin chided me and said that all of the fingers were chewing Ho their minuscule satellite-provided bandwidth.