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18 Aug 2026, 3:21 PM	Hacker News	2.0	Finger: the 1971 social network that never died The article traces the history of Finger, a 1971 protocol from Stanford's AI Lab that let users check who was online and read their .plan and .project text files—effectively the first social network. The protocol still works today, with clients preinstalled on macOS, most Unix systems, and Windows, and public hosts like happynetbox.com letting anyone publish without a server. Why: There is no practical action item for working builders here; it is a nostalgic history piece. At most, a vibe coder could try `finger random@happynetbox.com` for curiosity, but nothing in the text suggests you should adopt or change anything in your stack. retro-tech finger-protocol indieweb history

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18 Aug 2026, 3:21 PM

Hacker News

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Finger: the 1971 social network that never died

The article traces the history of Finger, a 1971 protocol from Stanford's AI Lab that let users check who was online and read their .plan and .project text files—effectively the first social network. The protocol still works today, with clients preinstalled on macOS, most Unix systems, and Windows, and public hosts like happynetbox.com letting anyone publish without a server.

Why: There is no practical action item for working builders here; it is a nostalgic history piece. At most, a vibe coder could try `finger random@happynetbox.com` for curiosity, but nothing in the text suggests you should adopt or change anything in your stack.