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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!](https://media.social.lol/media_attachments/files/114/066/279/748/963/928/original/3121fdea384140a8.png "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!")
@prami Awwww, it has been a donkey's age since I had a finger file.
@prami I'm afraid to ask this but remind me to finger myself on the command line?
@prami Fun! How do we finger ourselves?
@binarydigit I’m at a point where I can’t remember what does and doesn’t come with macOS, but if finger is no longer a built-in thing you can grab a client with Homebrew (https://brew.sh, brew install finger). I’ll write up a thing about this soon!
@prami @binarydigit That’s an impressively professional response. 
@heygarrett @prami RIGHT? Pffft
@prami Finger comes with macOS and funny story had a Swift bug in the macOS beta last summer. :)
@prami Wow that’s a blast from the past
@prami Is this a terminal-only thing..? Or something I might actually be able to figure out how to use 
@humdrum it’s a terminal thing! But I can also whip up a way to do it in a browser, too, so nobody has to miss out. Stay tuned!
@prami No sweat! No idea what finger or .plan is or if I’d use it!
@prami How fun! I had meaning to ask for something like this but for curl. I had never heard of finger before.
@prami FYI, you might want to stick to ASCII since some terminals don’t handle emoji as well.
@jmj Good point — fixed it! 
lol
@prami When is the gopher server coming?
@prami Just kidding, but you should actually consider a Gemini server.
@prami How do we configure it?
(I don't see it on https://home.omg.lol/address/<username>)
@adam / @robb Can you tell me where to look?
(Should I create a ~/.plan in https://terminalland?)
@rob It’s in the screenshot on Adam’s toot - add a .plan in paste.lol
@robb 
I'm a rather bad reader sometimes... 
@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:
@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.
@beardedtechguy Secure ShellFish.
@maique How did you connect to tildeverse exactly?
@beardedtechguy I have an account with tilde.club.
@prami Speaking of, is there fingers, finger+TLS? 
@prami Do I dare ask, how many fingers?
@binarydigit @prami I like that
@prami How fun!
It's interesting though, that macOS might be one of the very few OSs that still comes with finger by default.
@prami I love getting fingered.