Finger: The First Social Software (2019)

<https://plan.cat>

The Gemini/Gopher browser Lagrange can handle finger:// links.

<https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange#lagrange>

For instance:

  finger new_york@graph.no

  [graph.no]
                    -= Meteogram for New York, United States =-
   'C                                                                   Rain (mm)
   21                     ===
   20###               ===   ===
   19   ###   =========         ======
   18      ===                        ---
   17                                    ---
   16                                       ---
   15                                          ---
   14                                             ------
   13                                                   ------      ---
   12                    |  |  |                              ------    1 mm
     _10_11_12_13_14_15_16_17_18_19_20 21 22 23 17/05 02 03 04 05_06_07 Hour

     S SE SE SE SE  S  S  S SW SW SW  W  W  W  W  W  W  W  W  W  W

IIRC we could have 4 people ytalking. We had IRC but it lacked variety.

In another terminal window you’d have a “watch w” waiting for local “friends” to turn up.

For example, see http://www.columbia.edu/cu/moment/v0/100996/ytalk.html