who tf named it webfinger this one’s immature ass can NOT take that name seriously

@nyxt genuinely a horrible name and i still dont understand why they named it like that lmfao

@nyxt It’s named after finger (RFC 1288, originally RFC 742), which according to the RFCs was named after a program called FINGER by Les Earnest.

(Also, apparently the finger protocol has had 4 RFCs, one of which (RFC 1196) was published only a month after the previous (RFC 1194) and “corrects and clarifies [it] in a minor way”. Did they not have errata at the time or what?)