[lbenes]

Back when I was a kid, I used to regularly use finger check Carmack's .plan to see what he was up to.[1] Having never given this much thought, if you asked me about the origins of social media, I would have talked about MySpace and Friendster. Now I'd probably begin with talk and finger.

[1] https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive

[scelerat]

If youre giving that talk, don't skip the early web and httpd's commonly-enabled feature to host the contents of people's home directory, a la http://example.com/~username.

[MBCook]

Carmack is the only reason I even knew what a .plan file was.