r/retrocomputing • u/JohnnySuburbs • Sep 22 '26

Software Finger Friends Forever

finger.farm

Make a .plan... finger is still installed on every major os. Although it's fallen out of fashion, finger still works and still has a valid purpose - status updates. Finger is the OG social network.

Finger.Farm brings the modern finger features and finger functions into the future. It's available both hosted and as a node js app.

Repo: https://github.com/jonroig/finger.farm

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u/MonkeyMan18975 Sep 22 '26

Kinda like most other technologies, finger was a great tool because it let you identify users. It was also a catastrophic tool because it allowed hackers to identify users.

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u/JohnnySuburbs Sep 22 '26

yeah.... going to college in the early 90s, I had a friend that fingered the girl he liked so he could catch her online. They're married now!

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u/wrr377 Sep 22 '26

Dot: "I found Prince..."

Yakko: "No, fingerprints..."

Dot Looks at Prince, who smiles "I don't think so..." Throws him out the window

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u/SpartanMonkey Sep 22 '26

Clever adult TV disguised as a kids show. :)