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If we're going minimal, then why not Finger as a Twitter replacement? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(pro

If we're going minimal, then why not Finger as a Twitter replacement? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol) Finger communities/hosting: https://finger.farm/ https://finger.farm/ https://happynetbox.com/ https://happynetbox.com/ https://plan.cat/ https://plan.cat/ (thank you gbrown for reminding me of this) browsers that support finger (in addition to other protocols such as Gopher and Gemini): https://kristall.random-projects.net/ https://kristall.random-projects.net/ https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/ https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/

angrygoat 4y ago
Hah, those were the days. I remember using finger in the late 90s/early 00s to figure out whether people were at the computer club before I walked across campus for lunch :)
- layer8 4y ago
  You mean “to finger out”. ;)
prox 4y ago
Is there an aggregator for fingers? So it becomes more RSS or like twitter in format?
- mastazi 4y ago
  the home pages of happynetbox.com and plan.cat have a list of recent updates. It's worth saving them as bookmarks on your Finger client. finger://@happynetbox.com finger://@plan.cat Unfortunately finger.farm only has that feature available on its web mirror, but not on its native finger-protocol home page. In addition to those, over time I have also bookmarked some individual profiles, like this one which is one of my favourites finger://blast-rules@happynetbox.com Oh and also, in case you want to check the weather around the world: finger://@graph.no (web version: https://graph.no/ https://graph.no/ )
- gojomo 4y ago
  There's a protocol called 'WebFinger': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebFinger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebFinger
planetsprite 4y ago
- tristanbvk 4y ago
  Waltuuuh
gbrown_ 4y ago
To add to the list Joshua Stein has made https://plan.cat https://plan.cat who's atheistic I'm rather fond of.
- mastazi 4y ago
  Thank you! I visited plan.cat before, but forgot to bookmark it. Added to my comment above.
- xwowsersx 4y ago
  I assume you meant aesthetic?
  - rexreed 4y ago
    I'm pretty agnostic to the terminology
    - xwowsersx 4y ago
      Haha I see what you did there
endorphine 4y ago
Any resources for (ideally interactive) introduction to Finger? Apart from the wikipedia page.
- mastazi 4y ago
  I wish there was more info about Finger on the web. You can learn more about the protocol by reading RFC 1288, obviously that's not interactive at all though. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1288 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1288
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cbanek 4y ago
Just in case someone from the '90s was working at drpepper.com, I remember fingering them and someone had some amazing scrolling ascii art of betty boop IIRC. So much good ascii art on there, actually. I 'member.
- bravura 4y ago
  At university we used finger. I made my .plan file an ASCII art video version of the famous shot from Terminator 2 of the terminator doing a death-defying motorcycle jump into the draught channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0pCE0N-EF0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0pCE0N-EF0 The sysops politely emailed me, asking me to change it, citing bandwidth usage. It was about 800kb.
kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y ago
I implemented a finger "daemon" in an interface engine and use it as a gateway for a variety of services (weather, including my local WS, Plex info, etc). It's a super simple format, and does the job perfectly.

angrygoat 4y ago

Hah, those were the days. I remember using finger in the late 90s/early 00s to figure out whether people were at the computer club before I walked across campus for lunch :)

layer8 4y ago
You mean “to finger out”. ;)

prox 4y ago

Is there an aggregator for fingers? So it becomes more RSS or like twitter in format?

mastazi 4y ago
the home pages of happynetbox.com and plan.cat have a list of recent updates. It's worth saving them as bookmarks on your Finger client. finger://@happynetbox.com finger://@plan.cat Unfortunately finger.farm only has that feature available on its web mirror, but not on its native finger-protocol home page. In addition to those, over time I have also bookmarked some individual profiles, like this one which is one of my favourites finger://blast-rules@happynetbox.com Oh and also, in case you want to check the weather around the world: finger://@graph.no (web version: https://graph.no/ https://graph.no/ )
gojomo 4y ago
There's a protocol called 'WebFinger': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebFinger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebFinger

planetsprite 4y ago

tristanbvk 4y ago
Waltuuuh

gbrown_ 4y ago

To add to the list Joshua Stein has made https://plan.cat https://plan.cat who's atheistic I'm rather fond of.

mastazi 4y ago
Thank you! I visited plan.cat before, but forgot to bookmark it. Added to my comment above.
xwowsersx 4y ago
I assume you meant aesthetic?
- rexreed 4y ago
  I'm pretty agnostic to the terminology
  - xwowsersx 4y ago
    Haha I see what you did there

endorphine 4y ago

Any resources for (ideally interactive) introduction to Finger? Apart from the wikipedia page.

mastazi 4y ago
I wish there was more info about Finger on the web. You can learn more about the protocol by reading RFC 1288, obviously that's not interactive at all though. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1288 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1288

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cbanek 4y ago

Just in case someone from the '90s was working at drpepper.com, I remember fingering them and someone had some amazing scrolling ascii art of betty boop IIRC. So much good ascii art on there, actually. I 'member.

bravura 4y ago
At university we used finger. I made my .plan file an ASCII art video version of the famous shot from Terminator 2 of the terminator doing a death-defying motorcycle jump into the draught channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0pCE0N-EF0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0pCE0N-EF0 The sysops politely emailed me, asking me to change it, citing bandwidth usage. It was about 800kb.

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y ago

I implemented a finger "daemon" in an interface engine and use it as a gateway for a variety of services (weather, including my local WS, Plex info, etc). It's a super simple format, and does the job perfectly.