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Does anyone else remember when you could "finger" the Coke machine?

• dividuum 5y ago
  To those seemingly confused by this: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt
  • jt2190 5y ago
    Here’s the man page for finger: https://linux.die.net/man/1/finger https://linux.die.net/man/1/finger
• mrweasel 5y ago
  That's fantastic, I miss those ideas and tools. Modern computers are boring, sterile and devoid of humour. I mean it's actually useful, a little overkill perhaps, but then again so is mounting Raspberry Pis on everything. Perhaps I'm just getting old, but computers aren't as fun as they used to be, and while much software is of lower quality, it's also much more complex.
  • beamatronic 5y ago
    You could probably make a modern cross-platform finger client using Electron!
• pugworthy 5y ago
  I used to run a website for a university research ship, and you could "finger" the ship when in port and get current meteorological and sea data (temp, salinity, etc.) finger -l ship@oldman.hmsc.orst.edu was the call. "oldman" was the Sun workstation running the ships data systems, and "lubber" was the one on my desk.