In a conversation with a work colleague, I discovered that some Linux distros don’t come with finger as standard any more. Oh no! Luckily you can install it just about anywhere, but even if you can’t, here are three other ways you could try to read my blog via the Finger protocol:

• echo blog | nc danq.me 79 (using Netcat)
• cat <(echo blog) - | telnet danq.me 79 (using Telnet)
• lynx finger://danq.me/blog (using Lynx, which still supports finger:// URLs as first-class citizens!)