Social Unix Utilities I Miss
wallfingerwhotalk
I have fond memories of getting talk‘d on the VMS/Alpha machine back at CEC, and sometimes I wish I could just substitute a really nice .plan for my personal homepage.
wallfingerwhotalkI have fond memories of getting talk‘d on the VMS/Alpha machine back at CEC, and sometimes I wish I could just substitute a really nice .plan for my personal homepage.
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Sadly, all of those were so prone to abuse that practically no UNIX sites support them anymore.
The first time I saw the web I thought, “Okay, so it’s like .plan files with pictures? Big deal.” And frankly, weblogs haven’t really done anything to change that.
February 2nd, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Yeah, they’re basically all dead.
Ah, nostalgia.
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Ah, me too.
February 7th, 2007 at 6:25 am
Well, if you’re on the same host …
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All of them but wall, anyway.
Dreamhost has who and finger installed …
Talk was the main reason I wanted my own stable IP for years—IM is annoying, and there’s no way to tell how fast the person you’re talking to types -_-