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Prami

👉 Nobody asked for this, but here’s a fun little thing for you on a random Tuesday: your omg.lol address now comes with finger support.

Have fun!

A screenshot of a terminal window showing the command “finger adam@omg.lol” and the command output: [omg. lol] Trying 5.78.24.5... Login name: adam Directory: /home/adam Shell: /omg/lol On since Mar 23 2019 16:23:20 on ttyvm # Adam Newbold This is my -plan file. Whee! I'll put more here when I have time, later. If you want your own plan file, just log into omg. lol and make a new pastebin entry called ".plan". Learn more about the finger protocol here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol) Bye!
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Adam Newbold

@gabz @maique In ancient times, "finger" was a command that you’d run on your UNIX terminal to look up someone on your network. The command output would show you some basic info (where their home directory is located, whether they're currently online, etc.) and, optionally, their "plan" (if they had a .plan file present in their home directory).

The document that covers the protocol, RFC 742, is dated December 1977.

Definitely the kind of command this guy would have used a lot:

The classic UNIX MAGIC poster, showing a wizard pouring glowing liquids into a shell, with countless esoteric artifacts that refer to various UNIX commands and system functions.
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gabz :verified_pill_bottle2:

@adam @maique ah! I kinda look into this fingering thing, for Windows in my case, not sure what I would finger for, I mean... anyways, thank you for the fingering lesson 😅

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ianjs

@adam @gabz @maique

Love it. I have this poster mounted and framed above my desk.

I saw it at an industry computer back in the eighties and missed out on getting one because I didn't sign up with the now long-dead main-frame vendor that commissioned (?) it.

Decades later I tracked down a hi-res scan, got it printed and framed it.

One of my favourite artifacts from that period along with my tattered Prime Computer poster featuring Tom Baker's Doctor Who.

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