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In 1995-1196, I worked at an ISP. Our first step when trying to troubleshoot an access problem for a new user was to run the finger command on our server to see if the account had been provisioned yet.

30 years later, I still recall the time I had to calm down an angry customer after a frontline support tech told her that he was going to "finger her to find out what the problem is." He _really_ didn't think that one through!

1970-01-01 · 1h ago

Finger is a stoneage network tool. Saying it fell out of favour is like saying bashing nuts between rocks fell out of favour.

pipes · 1h ago

Why is a click bait headline necessary?

iamflimflam1 · 1h ago

(r)who, finger, talk - I remember having really nice gui wrappers for these that ran on XWindows and let you see who was online and chat with them.

anthk · 2h ago

      finger sdf.org

      finger london@graph.no

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The 90s Unix Utility That Fell Out of Favour

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