Comment by hn_throwaway_69

Seems to be a very basic social network based on concepts from an old protocol called finger. This website seems to replicate it as a bit of nostalgia.

As you might know, finger is an old protocol (actively used well before my time) which in essence showed information about the users on a server running a finger daemon (usually a Unix-like system).

As I understand it, when you queried for information about a user, a piece of the information you got back would be the contents of a ".plan" file in the user's home directory.

In this file a user could provide what we now call "status updates", which would then be promulgated by finger. You might have put your location, or what you were working on.

To avoid doubt, you can do all of this on the website and don't need to actually use the finger protocol at all. But for true nostalgia you'll need to use the finger command - which works!