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The Name/Finger Protocol (FINGER) is an application-level Internet protocol that is used by the people to see who is using the computer system as well as find basic information on that user. The finger program existed back in the 70s, but “Finger-as-a-Service” appeared in 1991, as described in the RFC 1288. What finger does is telling the self-published information about the user. Typically it is basic metadata (time zone, name, email) as well as the two text files from the user’s home directory: .project and .plan.
In modern time it has made a comeback as a retro tech in the smol-web used by nerds like me to experiment with the stuffs in the past and find new ways of using it. One of the best example of it's experimentation is happynetbox.com by Ben Brown.
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