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In article <1990Feb19.1...@world.std.com> b...@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>Someone probably has the truth but finger certainly goes back at least
>as far as the mid-late 70's on ITS systems.

FINGER originated on the DECsystem-10 at the Stanford Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory (SU-AI, now SAIL.Stanford.EDU).  It was
written by Les Earnest in the SAIL (a cousin of ALGOL) programming
language.  This was in the late 1960's or early 1970's.

Ken Harrenstein implemented FINGER at the MIT Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory (MIT-AI) as NAME.  A FINGER protocol was implemented soon
afterwards.  This was in the mid 1970's.

The next version of FINGER was for Tenex and TOPS-20, writen by Mike
McMahon and Stuart Cracraft.  A later TOPS-20 FINGER was written (in
order of who worked on it) in the early 1980's by myself, Mike Peeler,
and David Eppstein.

By 1979, the number of FINGER servers had proliferated to the point
that everyone had given up on having "FINGER @*" (!!!) work.

I think the first Unix finger programs appeared by 1979 or so; I have
a bit set that UCLA-SECURITY had a finger program written by Lauren
Weinstein.
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