.plans for the future

I just realized that Blogging (before it was called like that) has been around for quite a few years. In fact, they were called .plan files (“dot plan”). A .plan is basically a file which a user on a UNIX system (well, generally UNIX or Linux systems) can put into their “home” directory. This file is there so that the user can describe themselves, write a log, keep a list of things they have to do etc. Using a utility called “finger” it is possible to have a server return the contents of this file by passing it the user’s […]