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Made me think fondly of the days I would update my .plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)

by jahnu 4y ago

kristopolous 4y ago
I can't tell whether it's a coincidental invention and the author doesn't know about finger or it's a clone and an intentional omission.
- deleted 4y ago
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- fortyseven 4y ago
  Considering how long it's been since plan files have been relevant, the former is far more likely.
  - kristopolous 4y ago
    It's well documented even in popular tech books like the Doom book. Direct experience isn't needed. Related story. I had read extensively about Xerox Alto, Bravo, smalltalk-80 etc and it wasn't until my late 30s in Seattle at CHM that I actually saw one of the machines in real life. It was like meeting a celebrity I knew intimately about. All the things I had read about were there. Really marvelous.
- DanielVZ 4y ago
  I've heard of finger and remember finding it cool. The memory might've lived in my subconscious while making this site, but it wasn't something I had in mind while making this site.
  - kristopolous 4y ago
    No shame. Good ideas get reinvented and implemented frequently. You can almost always find analogs to the most popular contemporary things dating back hundreds of years. Hell look at European news parlors in the 1800s. The newspapers would be delivered by train and "influencers" would be waiting at the station to rush to a specific popular cafe where they would hop up on the table, read the headlines and give their hot takes. Audiences would follow them by coming around daily as merchants hung out near the best ones selling produce. Sound familiar? The deeper you look into the past the more it's just the same stuff reinvented. It's crazy how similar some of the stuff is
adolph 4y ago
Did finger make it past the days when identity was by machine? https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc1288/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc1288/ The copy installed on recent MacOS is: $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/finger/finger.c,v 1.36 2005/09/19 10:11:46 dds Exp $......

Made me think fondly of the days I would update my .plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)

by jahnu 4y ago

Made me think fondly of the days I would update my .plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)

kristopolous 4y ago

I can't tell whether it's a coincidental invention and the author doesn't know about finger or it's a clone and an intentional omission.

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fortyseven 4y ago
Considering how long it's been since plan files have been relevant, the former is far more likely.
- kristopolous 4y ago
  It's well documented even in popular tech books like the Doom book. Direct experience isn't needed. Related story. I had read extensively about Xerox Alto, Bravo, smalltalk-80 etc and it wasn't until my late 30s in Seattle at CHM that I actually saw one of the machines in real life. It was like meeting a celebrity I knew intimately about. All the things I had read about were there. Really marvelous.
DanielVZ 4y ago
I've heard of finger and remember finding it cool. The memory might've lived in my subconscious while making this site, but it wasn't something I had in mind while making this site.
- kristopolous 4y ago
  No shame. Good ideas get reinvented and implemented frequently. You can almost always find analogs to the most popular contemporary things dating back hundreds of years. Hell look at European news parlors in the 1800s. The newspapers would be delivered by train and "influencers" would be waiting at the station to rush to a specific popular cafe where they would hop up on the table, read the headlines and give their hot takes. Audiences would follow them by coming around daily as merchants hung out near the best ones selling produce. Sound familiar? The deeper you look into the past the more it's just the same stuff reinvented. It's crazy how similar some of the stuff is

adolph 4y ago

Did finger make it past the days when identity was by machine? https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc1288/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc1288/ The copy installed on recent MacOS is: $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/finger/finger.c,v 1.36 2005/09/19 10:11:46 dds Exp $......