This is a question that I asked during my presentation at the GBC08:
finger yanoff@alumni.cs.uwm.edu
How many people remember what this is?
Scott Yanoff’s internet services list
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Κύριε κύριε! Να πώ να πώ;
Not only do I remember what it is, I use finger quite often (though rarely over the network). The given example just times out for me. Ever since IIRC the original Internet worm abused a hole in the finger protocol, people were afraid of finger (which is kind of stupid, since holes can be fixed, and finger could be taught to give useful and not too revealing information).
Τι μου θύμησες τώρα… το finger (και εν συνεχεία το talk) το χρησιμοποιούσαμε για να βρίσκουμε κοπέλες από την ΑΣΟΕΕ (aueb) και να μιλάμε στα μπλιμπλίκια.
However my point was not the use of finger itself, but the list of Internet services that Scott Yanoff made available to the public via his $HOME/.plan file:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet-services/list/
Remembering Yanoff’s list in a way means that you remember the Internet before the WWW became the Internet. Just like Ed Krol’s book.
I believe that quite a few people still remember this. I suppose people also remember email to ftp gateways and other things like that…
There was a similar list compiled by Mike Panayiotakis in Greece.. See http://www.musesnet.gr/~sotiris/internet.html
Ah, those were the days, eh?!
-Scott
Too bad Scott was unborn when the Whole Earth Catalog came out
I use finger @kernel.org occasionally :)