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Fun Fact: MIT still runs a finger server at mit.edu (no subdomain!) that lets you look up anyone with a registered account. Years ago it was publically accessib
by varenc 5y ago
Fun Fact: MIT still runs a finger server at mit.edu (no subdomain!) that lets you look up anyone with a registered account. Years ago it was publically accessible, but now you need to make your request from within the MIT network to get a response.
You could also get the schedule for movies shown on campus with `finger @lsc.mit.edu`. That finger server is actually still running but looks like it's not being updated.
- air-wreck 5y agoSimilarly, CMU's finger server is still publicly accessible, although almost no one except for professors in the CS department actually has a .plan file.
- jedberg 5y ago> That finger server is actually still running but looks like it's not being updated. Or maybe they don't have any events right now due to COVID...
- varenc 5y agoNope, I checked the LSC website and confirmed they are indeed showing movies! So it’s just that the finger server isn’t being updated: http://lsc.mit.edu/ http://lsc.mit.edu/ (Note the HTTP link. The HTTPS cert is expired. But even if you bypass that warning I don’t think it’ll ever work due to other certificate errors. On almost all .mit.edu sites HTTPS is broken if you don’t have an affiliate client side very installed...)
- tibbon 5y agoLSC!