It was a collection of silly quotes from IRC channels everywhere, many of which dated back to the 90s. It was rarely ever updated in the 2010s, but now, the URL no longer resolves.
Last capture was July 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230601000000*/bash.org
EDIT Someone archived all the quotes on the Internet Archive.
My password is finally secure!
You can type it here and be completely safe! It hides it from us!
Wait, let me try *******
Does it work?
hunter2 is not a secure password.
Yeah, composing your password of all asterisks is probably not good.
Wow! That’s amazing, let me try ************* Did that show up for you?
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It did. Not a bad password but pretty easy to guess.
A true bash.org reader :)
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But what should I do with this robe and wizard hat?
It would have been awesome Easter egg to code in Lemmy that hunter2 would been always changed to stars.
The confusion it would have caused would have been legendary
It vanished 7 years ago and came back. It’s possible they forgot to renew.
First week of the new year. This seems likely.
Probably is exactly what happened here. The FreeCAD wiki went down on the 1st too, thankfully they have it mirrored to a GitHub repo so that ended up not being a major issue
Oh man, I forgot how much I used to read bash.
Damn, I hope it comes back. Bash was one of the greatest monuments to internet history.
The internet archive is becoming one of the most valuable sites on the web, specially to avoid paywalled corpo pages.
What will we do when the internet archive goes down
Join the crowd on tik tok I guess
And people are abusing the fuck out of it by uploading tons of copyrighted movies. No one seems to be policing it either. I’m very worried that its days are numbered.
Imagine how many copyrighted books are in IRL libraries. Now imagine that IRL libraries can copy any book in any amount. Congrats, now you imagined what libraries in Europe can do.
Uhh what? I’m pretty sure libraries in Europe can’t do that. Do you mean they can photocopy any book they own…?
Not sure how exactly it worked, but some time ago in Russia it was completely legal for library to copy book, but it seems now laws became more strict. Probably some member of United Russia got a shiny new yacht.
That might be legal in Russia, but not in EU or elsewhere in Western Europe. My partner works in a library in UK and copyright stuff is a big problem.
Qdb.us has gone about two years ago as well. None of these had remained?
RIP bash, hope they come back
I’m glad it got archived, but if you think those weren’t fake I have a bridge in New York for sale cheap.
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Yeah, seconded. I saw a decent chunk of things in person like I saw on bash.org. People were silly and/or dumb long before friendster, myspace, facebook, etc. and did plenty of shitposting (and just general cringe-y teenage obnoxiousness) on IRC and the like.
Shitposting is a tradition literally as old as the internet
It’s older than that, really, but before message boards it was just pranking, so honestly I’m glad for people to have the emotional outlet this way instead
It was also stall graffiti
a true art form
Who cares if something is ‘fake’ if you get enjoyment from it? It’s the same as any scripted comedy.
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Someone archived all the quotes on the Internet Archive.
Phew. Otherwise we’d need to share all the quotes by mouth around a hobo campfire.
I’ve read Fahrenheit 451 so i noe.Wow, an end of an era.
And he donned his robe and wizard hat for the last time :'(
Oh that! Lol.
Just going to shamelessly paste this one for the memories
< Cthon98 > hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars < Cthon98 > ********* see! < AzureDiamond > hunter2 < AzureDiamond > doesnt look like stars to me < Cthon98 > < AzureDiamond > ******* < Cthon98 > thats what I see < AzureDiamond > oh, really? < Cthon98 > Absolutely < AzureDiamond > you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2 < AzureDiamond > haha, does that look funny to you? < Cthon98 > lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as ******* < AzureDiamond > thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that < Cthon98 > yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as ******* < AzureDiamond > awesome! < AzureDiamond > wait, how do you know my pw? < Cthon98 > er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw < AzureDiamond > oh, ok.E: formatting EE: formatting EEE: more formatting??? EEEE: omg I don’t know how to fix this anyway you get the idea
As of February first, Usenet is done also. Google will not allow joining or new postings anymore. But they will continue to host it as an archive, until they don’t…
After 2025-03-08, we can register it, then download the full clone from WebArchive, and rehost. Pipe dream, I know, but one has to dream.
