Those of us who were alive across both those times, 80s and 90s are not just interchangeable symbols denoting "before my time".

      finger sdf.org

      finger london@graph.no

30 years later, I still recall the time I had to calm down an angry customer after a frontline support tech told her that he was going to "finger her to find out what the problem is." He _really_ didn't think that one through!