Post ARqTAzauzf00bMOHeC by ruario@social.vivaldi.net
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 (DIR) Post #ARqTAxErkgAfIO3dzs by ruario@social.vivaldi.net
       2023-01-20T17:54:34Z
       
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       I used @benbrown awesome finger 👆 service https://happynetbox.com to make the information from my two browser versioning bots (@vivaldiversiontracker & @browserversiontracker) available over the finger protocol.How does that work? Open a terminal and type the following for Vivaldi versions:finger vivaldiversion@happynetbox.comor for (desktop) stable versions of various browsersfinger browserversion@happynetbox.com
       
 (DIR) Post #ARqTAxnFgpg11296au by ruario@social.vivaldi.net
       2023-01-20T17:56:46Z
       
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       Windows and macOS have the finger command installed by default. On Linux it will may be installed as well but if not finger is an easy install away… or you can use curl like socurl gopher://happynetbox.com:79/0vivaldiversion and curl gopher://happynetbox.com:79/0browserversion
       
 (DIR) Post #ARqTAyFG0i4uPtFTFI by ruario@social.vivaldi.net
       2023-01-20T17:59:30Z
       
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       Bit wait, what is finger? Glad you asked. Well it is a very old protocol for giving status updates. Kind of like an ancient from of microblogging.There are actually a handful of modern services still offering information over this old protocol. Want to know the weather in Oslo, right now?finger oslo@graph.no[If you want to know a different location: `finger @graph.no` for more information]
       
 (DIR) Post #ARqTAyj2DzthuFBFey by ruario@social.vivaldi.net
       2023-01-20T18:03:12Z
       
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       I would also encourage you to check out some of the other Happy Net Box accounts. One is listed randomly at the end of each post.
       
 (DIR) Post #ARqTAz7qjjkN9Cn4L2 by ruario@social.vivaldi.net
       2023-01-20T18:23:15Z
       
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       This is the post that first inspired megopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/were-bringin-finger-back.txtYou can load that link (above) via curl or lynx or via a Gopher to Web proxyhttps://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.lite?=zaibatsu.circumlunar.space+70+302f7e736f6c64657270756e6b2f70686c6f672f776572652d6272696e67696e2d66696e6765722d6261636b2e747874
       
 (DIR) Post #ARqTAzauzf00bMOHeC by ruario@social.vivaldi.net
       2023-01-20T19:50:36Z
       
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       Wonder how old the finger protocol is? Check out the RFC 🤯https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc742
       
 (DIR) Post #ARqTB1LOULlm1n8ujA by ruario@social.vivaldi.net
       2023-01-20T19:58:27Z
       
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       Oh and here is a fun article about using the finger protocol to check the status of a coke vending machinehttps://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt