BoneQuest

finger.bonequest.com

BoneQuest by way of port 79

Try it

If your machine still has a finger client, today's episode is now available in glorious 7-bit clean ASCII:

$ finger bonequest@finger.bonequest.com

What is finger?

finger is a protocol from the early days of the internet for looking up information about a user on a remote host. You typed finger someone@somehost and the host printed back who they were, whether they were logged in, and the contents of their ~/.plan file.

A short history

finger was first specified in RFC 742 (1977) and later formalized in RFC 1288 (1991). It ran on TCP port 79 and spoke pure plaintext.

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