Fingering was huge at my university in the late 90s and seemed very focused on relationships. Passive aggressive and extremely emo .plans was very much a thing when some people’s feelings were hurt. If you were interested in someone you were definitely fingering them to see from where they were last logged in (we used to call this finger stalking).

Come to think of it I setup my first “date” (more like a hookup) over unix talk.

We had a legit proto social network going, all over telnet!

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mnw21cam 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

There was a fellow student at university who put the entire Hunting Of The Snark in their .plan file. It scrolled for a while.

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andros an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm dying! Using Telnet to flirt. The father of Tinder XD

	▲	xprnio 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		No, that I think would be Match.com or something along those lines. This is like the grandfather or grand-grandfather of Tinder, but not even intentionally. What I find funny is how an Estonian proverb/saying would fit here quite nicely: “don’t try to teach your grandfather how to have sex.” In this case, the grandfather didn’t need teaching - it was molded by the era into what was necessary.