Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life features

Re:Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life fe... by LawnGnome on Friday July 19, 2024 @01:37PM (#41008935)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol)

An old, old Internet protocol that was used to get information on a user, and could be used by users to post updates from their .plan files. Essentially plaintext social media for people with Internet connections in the 80s and (early-ish) 90s.

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Re:Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life fe... by whartung on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:52PM (#41010409)

Famous for enabling one of the very early Internet Worms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

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Re:Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life fe... by mercutio2 on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:30PM (#41010199)

I had that "oh crap, I'm old" moment when my initial reaction was "what? You've never heard of finger?!" and then I remembered I last used it in the late 90s.

I'm glad your reaction was to assist the young folks. :)

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Re:Devzat – Chat over SSH, with some nice quality-of-life fe... by hiAndrewQuinn on Saturday July 20, 2024 @12:45AM (#41014136)

Reimplementing it (well, the CLI program, `finger`) also happens to be the final exercise of Haskell Programming from First Principles, after 1200 pages of glorious buildup from the lambda calculus forward, in case that sells anyone on trying it ;)

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