The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical "reference" book written byAmbrose Bierce. It was originally published in 1906 as The Cynic'sWord Book.

Unix Fortune is a simple program that displays a random messagefrom a database of quotations that first appeared in Version 7Unix. The most common version on modern systems is the BSD fortune,originally written by Ken Arnold. Distributions of fortune areusually bundled with a collection of themed files, containingsayings like those found on fortune cookies, quotations from famouspeople, jokes, or poetry. NOTE: This version of Unix Fortune alsocontains a widget with access to over 8000 short fortunes takenfrom all themes.

The original Unix Finger program was written by Les Earnest in1971and was designed to retrieve information about users on anetwork.This protocol has largely fallen out of grace and is rarelyused.Good luck finding an open Finger server on which to testthisclient. This version of the Unix Finger client was implementedbyJohn Selmys at Seneca College in Toronto - 2011.