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| The Fingerverse: The First Frontier. |
| |
| These are the travels of netizens. Embarking on a lifelong mission: to |
| explore new servers; to seek out plan files and communities; to go forth |
| where few have gone before. |
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: Communities :
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| finger://happynetbox.com | Perfect for ASCII pages |
| | |
| | https://happynetbox.com |
| | https://benbrown.com/home/ |
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| finger://plan.cat | Classic Finger with modern features |
| | |
| finger @plan.cat | head -n 20 | https://plan.cat |
| | https://jcs.org |
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| finger://thebackupbox.net/ring | * type on single line, above your content:|
| | |
| | <finger://thebackupbox.net/ring> |
| | |
| | * finger the server: |
| | |
| | finger you@domain.com@thebackupbox.net |
| | ----------------------------------------- |
| | - System response: user added... |
| | ----------------------------------------- |
| | - Future updates to your .plan file will |
| | auto trigger an update to the ring. |
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| finger://tilde.team | https://tildeverse.org |
| | |
| | https://tildeverse.org/members/ |
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| finger://telehack.com | https://telehack.com/telehack.html |
| | |
| | Telehack's .plan pages are autogenerated |
| | Append yours by logging in and... |
| | |
| | ped .plan (16 line max) |
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: Personal Domain :
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| finger://typed-hole.org | additional services (aka: @9til.de) |
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| finger://skyjake.fi/jaakko | Lagrange author |
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| finger://fuwn.me | Gigi: a finger protocol server |
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| finger://redterminal.org | personal site |
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| finger://1436.ninja | personal site |
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| finger://collantes.us/david | finger://netbros.com/david |
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| finger://drkhsh.at/drkhsh | personal site |
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| finger://pyratebeard.net/pyrate| personal site |
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| finger://maze.io/maze | personal site |
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: Services :
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| finger://typed-hole.org/textfile | A random file from textfiles.com |
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| finger://happynetbox.com/bot | Auto News Bot: Article titles and URLs. |
| | |
| | Clients that render links as clickable: |
| | |
| | * lynx |
| | * portal.mozz.us |
| | * smolmail |
| | * nview |
| | * get-news (640kb.neocities.org/apps/) |
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| finger ^"location"@graph.no | Current Weather via Finger. |
| | https://github.com/ways/fingr/ |
| finger://graph.no/^'location' | |
| | finger @graph.no |
| | finger ^"roswell, new mexico"@graph.no |
| | |
| | finger://graph.no/^'Death Valley, CA' |
| | finger://^'Snag, Yukon'@graph.no |
| | |
| | gopher://graph.no:79/0^'Maui, Hawaii' |
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| finger://happynetbox.com/say | Anon chat service: |
| | |
| | finger say@happynetbox.com |
| | |
| | finger say@happynetbox.com | head -n 25 |
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| finger://typed-hole.org/cyoa | Choose Your Own Adventure |
| | |
| | Underground Kingdom by Edward Packard |
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| finger://happynetbox.com/random | Displays random user |
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| finger://typed-hole.org/smog | Saturday Morning Gemzine from The Free |
| | Internet. Last Issue: 06feb2021 |
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| finger://happynetbox.com/1 | Interactive Fiction |
| | |
| | Stumbled across this 06apr2025. I'm not |
| | sure if it's complete. Starts off great!|
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| Browser Version Bot | finger://happynetbox.com/browserversion |
| | |
| | Browser version numbers, up to date |
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| Finger Syntax | * finger @tilde.team |
| | * finger benbrown@happynetbox.com |
| | |
| | * finger://plan.cat/jcs |
| | * finger://julien@typed-hole.org |
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| Gopher clients | * gopher://thebackupbox.net:79/0ring |
| are also | |
| Finger clients | : 79 is the port number Finger uses |
| | : 0 tells Gopher it's a text file. |
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| finger | https://manpages.org/finger |
| | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol) |
| | |
| | finger://happynetbox.com/originsfinger |
| | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| | The finger program was originally written by Les Earnest |
| | (1930 - 2024) in 1971 for the time-sharing, mainframe OS |
| | appropriately named WAITS. |
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| lynx | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser) |
| | |
| | https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx_help/ |
| | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-color/ |
| | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| | (sudo) edit /etc/lynx/lynx.cfg |
| | |
| | #KEYMAP:UPARROW:PREV_LINK (TO) KEYMAP:UPARROW:UP_TWO |
| | #KEYMAP:DNARROW:NEXT_LINK (TO) KEYMAP:DNARROW:DOWN_TWO |
| | |
| | Smooth scrolling. Links & forms no longer interfere while |
| | using the Up/Down arrows. Navigate links with (Shift) TAB. |
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| curl | https://curl.se/ |
| | |
| | curl gopher://happynetbox.com:79/0codepage437 (8-bit) |
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| textnet | https://640kb.neocities.org/apps/index.html |
| | |
| | A cross-platform python-based finger client with support |
| | for additional text-based protocols (dict://, whois, qotd), |
| | a rendering mode and other options. |
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| Bopher-NG | https://git.sr.ht/~luxferre/Bopher-NG |
| | |
| | A polished gopher client written in pure BASH. Includes: |
| | gmi2map, list2map, gopherinfo, gmi2txt and phlow. |
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| gopherus | https://gopherus.sourceforge.net/ |
| | https://mateusz.fr/ |
| | |
| | Modern, multiplatform. Includes DOS support! |
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| ddwarf | https://mateusz.viste.fr/software/ddwarf |
| | |
| | Linux, Windows. Gopherus now replaces Digger Dwarf. |
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| dfinger | https://github.com/KikyTokamuro/dfinger |
| | |
| | A dedicated finger client written in the D language. Source |
| | compiles without issue (sudo apt install dub). |
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| bfinger | https://640kb.neocities.org/apps/index.html |
| | |
| | A simple bash-based finger client using /dev/tcp. |
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| finger-client| https://github.com/alexmullins/finger-client |
| | |
| | A finger-only client. A precompiled binary is available. |
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| bollux | https://tildegit.org/acdw/bollux |
| | |
| | bollux [URL] (gopher, gemini, spartan) |
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| bombadillo | https://bombadillo.colorfield.space |
| | |
| | syntax: finger://username@example.com |
| | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| | Finger, Gopher, Gemini with additional protocol support. |
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| Lagrange | https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/ |
| | https://gmi.skyjake.fi/ |
| | |
| | Top-rated & full-featured browser with support for all the |
| | core smolnet protocols: Finger, Gopher, Gemini, Spartan, |
| | Titan, Nex as well as seamless file:// system browsing. |
| | |
| | Listed on its [about:help] page is support for split view, |
| | persistence, image/audio support, gemini/atom feeds, gempub,|
| | books, view internal zip archives and much more. |
| | |
| | A crossplatform powerhouse supporting: Linux, macOS, iOS |
| | (TestFlight), Android (F-Droid, github) and Windows. |
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| Kristall | https://random-projects.net/projects/ |
| | https://kristall.random-projects.net/ |
| | |
| | Along with Lagrange, one of the top graphical browsers |
| | available for the smolnet. Supports: Finger, Gopher, Gemini |
| | and some light http/s html content. |
| | |
| | Platforms: Linux, *BSDs, Windows and macOS. |
| | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| | Note: proper monospace on all ASCII pages (finger) and HTML |
| | preformatted require the following: |
| | |
| | File -> Settings -> Style... |
| | |
| | Both the [Standard] Font and [Preformatted] Font must be |
| | changed to monospace (or similar). Larger font, nice too:-) |
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| Dillo | https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo-plugin-gopher |
| | https://dillo-browser.github.io/ |
| | https://hn.algolia.com/?q=dillo (news) |
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| | Finger supported via gopher. Gemini, ftp, file:// and http |
| | are also supported. |
| | |
| | Cross platform: Linux, BSD, macOS, FreeDOS (DilloDOS). |
| | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| | edit ~/.dillo/dillorc (tweaks for my 1920x1080) |
| | |
| | * increase font_factor=1.50 |
| | * bg_color=0xFAF9F6 |
| | * geometry=1600x900 |
| | * start_page="file:/home/path/to/filename.html" |
| | * home="file:/home/path/to/filename.html" |
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| Castor | Graphical browser with support for Finger, Gopher, Gemini. |
| | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| | Steps for an Ubuntu/Mint install (done on 24jan2024): |
| | |
| | 1. https://git.sr.ht/~julienxx/castor |
| | 2. click on "ec77c753" |
| | 3. download ".tar.gz" and extract |
| | 4. The following on a Single Line: |
| | apt install build-essential rustc cargo libgtk-3-dev |
| | libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libssl-dev |
| | 5. make (from directory of extracted .tar.gz file) |
| | 6. sudo make install (system integration) |
| | 7. file is empty : ~/.config/castor/settings.toml |
| | |
| | It's here: https://git.sr.ht/~julienxx/castor |
| | and here : https://archive.ph/9JW9p & on Wayback |
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| gophie | https://github.com/jankammerath/gophie |
| | https://gophie.org/ |
| | |
| | Finger syntax: gopher://happynetbox.com:79/1/debug |
| | |
| | Java-based Gopher browser: Linux, macos, Windows, others. |
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| Plan Poke | https://www.borovia.co/ (iOS) |
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| | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/plan-poke/id1606247516 |
| | |
| | Supports: iOS, iPadOS and visionOS |
| | |
| | Among Plan Poke's many features are: Add, Edit and Search |
| | accounts / Face-ID locking / configurable display colors / |
| | iCloud data syncing, ASCII Art view and much more. |
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| Lagrange | https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/ (Android & iOS) |
| | |
| | https://skyjake.github.io/fdroid/repo/ |
| | github.com/skyjake/skyjake.github.io/tree/master/fdroid/repo|
| | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| | update (Mar 22, 2025): Installed lagrange_v1.18b36_phone.apk|
| | |
| | Lagrange looked and worked great on my Lenovo 12.7" tablet. |
| | It's also as feature-rich as its Desktop counterpart. |
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| Mozz.us | https://portal.mozz.us/ |
| | https://github.com/michael-lazar |
| | |
| | See Proxy-based Clients section. |
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| Mozz.us | https://portal.mozz.us/ |
| | https://github.com/michael-lazar |
| | |
| | 3rd-party Firefox extension: geminize |
| | |
| | So much to like, including support for all the main smolnet |
| | protocols, a bookmark-like front page and the overall |
| | rendered presentation of these sites. |
| | |
| | One feature I really like is that it takes a .plan file and |
| | converts to monospaced html with clickable links. This link |
| | heavy file, for example, becomes easier to interact with: |
| | |
| | http://portal.mozz.us/finger/happynetbox.com/fingerverse |
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| Floodgap | https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ (proxy) |
| | |
| | Finger access as: gopher://plan.cat:79/0jcs |
| | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| | * Firefox extensions: Underbite & OverbiteWX |
| | * Chrome extension: Burrow |
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| fuwn.me | A finger-to-html gateway. Start here: |
| | |
| | https://fuwn.me/finger/ |
| | |
| | and add the finger address at the end. For example: |
| | |
| | https://fuwn.me/finger/skyjake.fi/ |
| | https://fuwn.me/finger/skyjake.fi/jaakko |
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: Other fun ways :
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| netcat | echo | nc telehack.com 79 |
| | echo | nc plan.cat 79 | head -n 20 |
| | |
| | echo "julien" | nc typed-hole.org 79 |
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| telnet | Example below using textfile@typed-hole.org |
| | |
| | telnet typed-hole.org 79 (press enter or a username) |
| | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| | The second method auto closes connection. Adjust 'sleep'. |
| | |
| | cat <(echo textfile) - | telnet typed-hole.org 79 |
| | |
| | { cat <(echo "test"); sleep 3; } | telnet plan.cat 79 |
| | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| | Source: https://danq.me/2022/11/17/wp-finger/ |
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| nview | Bash wrapper script that redirects a finger query to a temp |
| | file and displays the result via 'NFO Viewer'. Clickable |
| | links, customization and the hard-to-escape nostalgia. |
| | |
| | https://640kb.neocities.org/apps/index.html |
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| smolmail | send email to: smolmail (at) typed-hole.org |
| | |
| | Subject Line: @domain.com .. or .. user@domain.com |
| | |
| | Auto replies as fixed font email with clickable links. |
| | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| | Protocols supported: finger, gopher, gemini and http(s) |
| | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| | Want to try something cool? Read the author's description |
| | by sending email with the subject line: |
| | |
| | gopher://typed-hole.org/0/phlog/2022/smolmail.txt |
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| fm | The Multi-Server Finger Monitor |
| | |
| | A simple Finger server checker with the grandest of names! |
| | Checks 3 core servers for recent user activity. |
| | |
| | https://640kb.neocities.org/apps/index.html |
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: The core protocols that make up smolnet - such as Gemini, Gopher, Spartan, :
: Nex and Finger - can help provide alternative operating systems with :
: greater viability when these protocols are supported natively. :
: :
: Additionally, the lightweight and privacy-respecting nature of these OSes :
: aligns closely with the spirit of smolnet and its community. :
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| AmiGemini | https://aminet.net/package/comm/net/AmiGemini |
| for | |
| Amiga | https://amitopia.com/?s=AmiGemini&submit=Search |
| | |
| | A modern Amiga smolnet browser with support for: Finger, |
| | Gopher, Gemini, Spartan and Nex protocols. |
| | |
| | Demo posted on Feb 26, 2024: |
| | https://youtu.be/Lx4k1Oox4oY?t=80 |
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| Kristall | https://github.com/MasterQ32/kristall |
| for | https://kristall.random-projects.net/ |
| Haiku | |
| | The build instructions seem very straightforward. I've also |
| | seen online discussion verifying Kristall running on Haiku. |
| | |
| | https://github.com/nkrisc/kristall/blob/master/BUILDING.md |
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| CC0: No Rights Reserved |
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| https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_FAQ |
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| fingerverse@happynetbox.com |----| Nov 18, 2025 |----| 640kb.neocities.org |
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