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

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.