[kzhahou]

I think you're being DV'd because people think you're saying "this is just finger." But I think you're actually reminding people of that old service, which won't be familiar to newer generation, and was ubiquitous back in the day.

[achillean]

And there are still 4,000+ servers running it publicly:

https://www.shodan.io/report/ohcbBDbi

For comparison: finger[1] is more common on the Internet than Apache Cassandra[2].

[1] https://www.shodan.io/search?query=port%3A79+idle

[2] https://www.shodan.io/search?query=product%3Acassandra

[adiabatty]

A bunch of game developers had .plan files back in the late 90s, but we Windows users had to visit a third-party site to view John Carmack's .plan because Windows didn't have a finger client.

This is better than finger in some ways — it's not multiline-capable as written, but at least clients can consume .txt files with near-universal tools (web browsers).

[gknoy]

I still remember reading John Carmack's _amazingly_detailed_ and interesting .plan files back when I was in college.