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Re:.plan by remexre on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @08:52PM (#29248543)
A social network(?) based on .plan files -- back in the day, this was how you let people know your status; you'd use the finger [0] command to get them for a user.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol#Finger_user_in...

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Re:.plan by encryptluks2 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @09:23PM (#29248705)
I think this was the original meaning of fingering.
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Re:.plan by pavlov on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @09:31PM (#29248754)
The 2001 surprise indie drama hit “Freddy Got Fingered” tells the story of Frederick Gauswurth, an MIT professor whose melancholy plan updates about aging gather a surprising audience among computer science students.
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Re:.plan by jsf on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @09:30PM (#29248747)
I mean…
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