Also, there was something called "Faces" or "Picons" which were kind of a precursor to Gravatar which showed you images that corresponded to emails, domains, an

Also, there was something called "Faces" or "Picons" which were kind of a precursor to Gravatar which showed you images that corresponded to emails, domains, and more. Indiana University had a Web service for performing these lookups using finger[0] (looks like it has since been turned off). For example, here is Richard Stallman[1] and here is Dennis Ritchie (RIP)[2]. [0] http://web.archive.org/web/20070630172305/http://www.cs.indiana.edu:800/finger/gateway http://web.archive.org/web/20070630172305/http://www.cs.indi... [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20070630172449/http://www.cs.indiana.edu:800/finger/gnu.ai.mit.edu/rms/w http://web.archive.org/web/20070630172449/http://www.cs.indi... [2] http://web.archive.org/web/20070630172341/http://www.cs.indiana.edu:800/finger/research.att.com/dmr/w http://web.archive.org/web/20070630172341/http://www.cs.indi...