The #finger command considered as a social network
on 02026-08-19The GNU pinky command homepage has a #history of the #finger utility, originally by #Les-Earnest, then at #SAIL. “Finger was named for the act of pointing. I recall that sometime after it became popular I received a message from a system administrator who thought that it should be renamed so that users would not have to use a ‘dirty’ word. I gave his request all the consideration that it deserved.” The pinky difference is that it doesn’t support the finger protocol.