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by ams6110 2782 days ago
There were rudimentary profiles. If you "fingered⁕" someone, you could see the contents of their ~/.plan and ~/.project files, which formed something like a profile.

⁕ FINGER(1)

NAME

     finger – user information lookup program
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Back in the day John Carmack's .plan file was my social media feed.

https://garbagecollected.org/2017/10/24/the-carmack-plan/