awesome-finger

kristall

— a GUI gemini-protocol browser that also supports the finger-protocol

lagrange

— a GUI gemini-protocol browser that also supports the finger-protocol

finger.farm

— a multi-user finger-protocol server

— turns WordPress into a finger-protocol server

— proxies finger-protocol client requests, and returns the response from the finger-protocol server as JSON

go-finger

— implements the finger protocol, for the Go programming language, that can be used to create both clients & servers

— (published ) — the finger-protocol existed and was evolving for RFC-742 was published; when RFC-742 was published in 1977, RFC-742's purpose was to attempt to describe the protocol that was implemented first by the program, and then by the program, as well as 3 running finger-sites that existed at the time — (SU-AI), (SRI-(KA/KL)), and (MIT-(AI/ML/MC/DMS)); i.e., RFC-742 was attempting to create a new protocol, but instead was an attempting to describe the protocol that already existed, was already implemented, and was already in use by client software, by server software, and by people; i.e., the finger-protocol was created by the person(s) who wrote the software

— (published ) — RFC-742, which was published in 1977, had some parts of it that were considered to be ambiguous by some; RFC-1288, published in 1991 (i.e., after RFC-742 was published, and the finger-protocol existed and was evolving), was an attempt to remove some of the ambiguity of RFC-742, to make it easier for both people who would implement a finger-protocol client or server, and to provide some guidance; RFC-1288 added restrictions to the finger-protocol that did NOT exist in RFC-742; in 1991 some of these restrictions may have seemed reasonable, however today (in 2022) some of the restrictions probably do not make as much sense (and should probably be reconsidered)

Finger Request Switch

— (published ) — an update to the that permits custom finger-protocol switches, in addition to the switch

fingerverse

— a list of many finger-sites (finger-holes?), which is useful anyone who wants to try out or get started with finger

— (published ) — a history of the and its usage from the early 1970s to the year 2000

— a story, from the early 1990s, about a pop vending machine whose status could be queried via finger