[HN Gopher] Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
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Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
Bash.org was a cornerstone of the old internet. It was a collection
of silly quotes from IRC channels everywhere, many of which dated
back to the 90s. And now it is no more.
Author : Khaine
Score : 487 points
Date : 2024-01-11 11:17 UTC (11 hours ago)
| h2odragon wrote:
| Thanks to the folk who put it together and ran it nearly 20
| years. I wonder how much the whole thing cost?
|
| Kind of thing that gets put together as a "hey this is cool"
| project, it runs and people use it, so we'll just leave it up...
| months later its _more_ popular, the original authors of the
| system moved on, but no one can just pull the plug now. this is a
| _public resource_ , so we'll just keep feeding it.
|
| Years later, someone may go through and fix the design problems;
| or not. It might be no one figured out how to resolve the
| dependency on PHP2 or Python1 the original code may have had.
| cqqxo4zV46cp wrote:
| I'd feel kinda sad if bash.org wasn't using Perl or something.
| toyg wrote:
| IIRC it smelled of php.
| diggan wrote:
| Definitely PHP, I seem to remember it being mentioned in
| some blog/news post sometime.
| shawabawa3 wrote:
| surely it should have been written in bash
| pas wrote:
| of course it should have been ported to BoB (Bash on Balls,
| the modern portable slick web framework)
| dymk wrote:
| And favored framework among the CBT community
| mrweasel wrote:
| Was the Bash.org code available somewhere? I'd love to have a
| look at it, just for fun.
| jiripospisil wrote:
| Huh, it really looks like it's not coming back this time. It has
| been offline for ~6 months. At least most of the quotes are
| backed up.
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20230701000000*/bash.org
|
| https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes
| toyg wrote:
| Would make for a nice webservice, like those
| Pokemon/StarWars/etc apis.
|
| Ironically, those quotes will likely survive a lot of more
| modern content. Even viral stuff, these days, will disappear
| incredibly quickly - bat an eyelid and the imgur link is
| broken, the twitter post is paywalled, the reddit thread is
| taken down... And any private service like Discord or Slack
| will happily burn everything after a few months.
|
| "The internet does not forget" is such a massive lie.
| bombcar wrote:
| The Internet only forgets stuff you wish it wouldn't, and
| remembers everything you wish it wouldn't.
| mulmen wrote:
| > "The internet does not forget" is such a massive lie.
|
| This is a warning, not a guarantee.
| jwilk wrote:
| What do they mean by "cleaned"?
| kotaKat wrote:
| "The numbers missing from the sequence correspond to the
| quotes that are either still pending review or have been
| rejected. However, my dataset is by no means considered to be
| proven complete."
| 0xbadcafebee wrote:
| Ooh, we should make a Fortune database out of them! (Am I the
| only person still using 'fortune' as their shell motd?)
| bayindirh wrote:
| It was down for a couple of months already. However, the IP and
| server seems to be there. Maybe the person who keeps that up will
| restart the daemons when they remember they operate one of the
| nostalgia cornerstones of better part of the internet.
|
| Maybe the server's password is hunter2. Let's see whether can I
| access it.
|
| Edit: Nope. Seems firewalled.
| Scarblac wrote:
| Almost, the password is ********.
| bayindirh wrote:
| I can't read it. _pfft_
| miroljub wrote:
| That's because of the HN security. It prints all passwords
| as stars.
|
| You can try putting your HN password in a comment, it would
| be visible only by you, and the others will not see it.
| meepmorp wrote:
| hunter1
| markx2 wrote:
| Close.
|
| hunter2
| meepmorp wrote:
| Wait, how did you see my password?
| test1235 wrote:
| we see it as asterisks ... you see it as hunter2 and not
| **** 'cos it's your password
| theginger wrote:
| What? I just see stars
| CoastalCoder wrote:
| Get to a doctor!
| pigeons wrote:
| What? I just see stars
|
| Have you seen a doctor?
|
| No, just stars
| dllthomas wrote:
| Ready when you are, Raul.
| notarget137 wrote:
| How about ****** Did it work?
| tomrod wrote:
| Oh wow, you kiss your mother with that mouth?
| actionfromafar wrote:
| I use my fingers to type passwords and ehh...
| bayindirh wrote:
| I guess you're right. My HN password is *****.
|
| When I edit, I can see it, but when I save the comment,
| it becomes starred. It even randomizes the length every
| time I save.
|
| Brilliant!
| GTP wrote:
| But this also means that they know your plaintext
| password, meaning that they're saving passwords in
| plaintext. Given that this is mostly a technical
| community, it's much more the risk of keeping a database
| of plaintext passwords than the benefit of being able to
| obfuscate passwords in comments.
|
| EDIT: thanks to another commenter, I understood that
| what's happening in the above comments is just a meme and
| HN isn't storing plaintext passwords. Sorry for the
| misunderstanding.
| Volundr wrote:
| In case you're unclear why your being down voted, comment
| chain is a riff on one of the more famous bash.org
| quotes: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2.
|
| HN does not actually know your password or hide it in
| comments.
| Duanemclemore wrote:
| (whistles softly as he changes password from a string of
| twelve asterisks to ******)
| mewpmewp2 wrote:
| > HN does not actually know your password or hide it in
| comments.
|
| Does it not know? What if I post it in this comment? My
| password is *****.
| svnt wrote:
| What actually happens is more complex: when you type a
| *******, HN tries to log in once for every string in your
| *******, and then when it succeeds it goes back and
| replaces that string with a randomized length of
| asterisks.
| BuildTheRobots wrote:
| (sticking with the obliviousness for a moment,) Would
| they need to store the plaintext password? Hashing every
| word typed isn't efficient but it's possible to achieve
| without knowing the plaintext.
|
| It reminds me of Facebook allowing login even when you've
| mistyped your password:
| https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/214814/why-
| can-...
| GTP wrote:
| Yes, that's true. But since HN is famously hosted on a
| single not-so-powerful server, that would be unlikely to
| be the employed solution.
| BuildTheRobots wrote:
| Considering how laggy the comment box is on reddit, it
| makes me wonder if they're not already doing something
| similar, but client-side in js. I guess it would expose
| the salt though.
| GTP wrote:
| Exposing the salt isn't an issue, it can (and should)
| even be a different one for each account.
| latexr wrote:
| > Hashing every word typed
|
| Wouldn't work if your password contains spaces.
| bbarnett wrote:
| But it does! They, instead, hash each letter
| independently, that's how they can do this.
| KETHERCORTEX wrote:
| They just hash every substring that can be a password.
|
| Don't write long comments. Show some love to HN's server
| carrying its O(n^2) burden.
| Tainnor wrote:
| I love that some 20-30 years after that famous chat
| somebody still fell for it.
| asztal wrote:
| *****? That's amazing! I've got the same password on my
| luggage!
| nirui wrote:
| This has to be a joke.
|
| The only way it can be realistically implemented involves
| the storage of clear-text user password to enable string
| replacement during comment submission. Either that or
| converting user comment to a prefix/suffix table (or
| something similar) and then hash each item to search for
| a match. Both option is ridiculously unnecessary.
|
| Anyway, my HN password is ****. I bet it don't work.
| thomaslord wrote:
| Fortunately with modern serverless architecture, it's
| possible to make this performant! Just split up each
| comment into words and dispatch each word to a queue
| where AWS Lambda workers can check the words against the
| user's password hash. It might cost $20 to process each
| comment, but at least it'll autoscale to handle any
| comment volume you throw at it!
| Affric wrote:
| Can passwords include spaces?
| zellyn wrote:
| I love each and every one of you who have posted into this
| subtree, although it's bittersweet if bash.org really is
| going away... <3
|
| https://archive.is/0y1yT is the archive of
| http://www.bash.org/?244321
| romwell wrote:
| FIY, your archive link is not working too at the moment.
|
| What do we do?
|
| _Sigh_
|
| I put on my robe and wizard hat
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20190228221758/http://www.bash.
| o...
| RainaRelanah wrote:
| Works for me. Do note that archive.is blocks CloudFlare
| DNS.
| romwell wrote:
| Works for me now too, probably the server was not
| handling the load.
| philsnow wrote:
| This has bitten me before; now my pihole has this line in
| its dnsmasq configuration
| server=/archive.is/archive.ph/8.8.8.8
|
| so that even if I'm using cloudflare dns for everything
| else, it will query 8.8.8.8 for those two domains
| imgabe wrote:
| Hey, how did you get my Hacker News password?
| CoastalCoder wrote:
| > Hey, how did you get my Hacker News password?
|
| Relax, they didn't. Your password is 3 characters longer.
| hunter2_ wrote:
| Indeed, over the years a symbol gets added for
| length/complexity/rotation purposes.
| opello wrote:
| _chef 's kiss_
| raverbashing wrote:
| So you're saying the server pings but nobody knows where it's
| at?
| bayindirh wrote:
| Host resolves, packets are dropped (ICMP timeouts, but
| nothing is "unreachable"). My sysadmin gut says that the
| server is there, behind a firewall, and the webserver is
| down/stopped, or the firewall is killing everything.
|
| The IP is not shared. It reverse-resolves, too.
|
| So, it's not dismantled and thrown to side.
|
| Looks like the hosting provider, Idologic, got bought by
| Stablepoint. Maybe they have somehow blocked the site during
| the merger?
| PcChip wrote:
| Whoosh
| toyg wrote:
| One of the most famous quotes was about a server that is
| online and pings, but the sysadmin doesn't know anymore
| where it physically is.
| bayindirh wrote:
| Ah, I probably missed it because we had the following
| dialogue _at the office_. <senior-
| sysadm> Hey bayindirh, is the log server up?
| <bayindirh> *SSHs to server* Yes, it's up and running
| nicely. <senior-sysadm> Where's that thing in the
| system room? <bayindirh> *Scratches head* Umm, I
| don't know? <senior-sysadm> Go find it, we'll
| upgrade it to newer HW. <bayindirh> Uh, OK.
| *leaves desk to dig the system room*.
|
| P.S.: I'm the one who installed that server physically
| and configured it in the first place. :D
| INTPenis wrote:
| I once resolved a similar situation by having the PC
| speaker play the simpsons theme song.
| inversetelecine wrote:
| Funny, we used to do the same with random pcs in our lab
| that people would setup and forget about. We used the
| Duke Nuken 3D theme song from when the game first loaded.
| bombcar wrote:
| Ah the fond days of being able to identify a machine
| remotely by ejecting its CD-ROM drive.
| alsetmusic wrote:
| You mean the cup holder?
| bluedino wrote:
| Famously it ends with the server being behind drywall or
| something after some construction project.
| susam wrote:
| Yes, it is this one:
|
| _< erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it
| responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't
| figure out where in my apartment it is._
|
| Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20230610235249/http://
| bash.org/?5...
| renewiltord wrote:
| Gotta use audible pings and leave the PC speaker plugged
| in haha! Many network devices have a "blink management
| LED now" feature for the same reason.
| shagie wrote:
| There was a lab I hung out in back in college. The nature
| of the room and the devices that we had in there, there
| was 10bT, 10b2, and 10b5. Twisted pair, coax, and thick.
|
| The someone had what was termed "the connector of evil".
| Apparently coax and thick had the same signal... just
| thick was more rigid about where you connected into it. (
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5 and
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_tap ). The
| connector of evil looked like a 10b5 terminator on one
| side and 10b2 on the other... and passed the signal
| between them.
|
| When adding another computer onto the 10b2 segment, we
| would invariably disrupt the wave in the wire and some
| devices would drop off.
|
| The trick was to have each machine ping -f one of the
| systems on 10bT and redirect its output to /dev/audio. If
| the machine was making noise, it was good. And so then
| we'd fiddle with different lengths of coax between the T
| connectors until everything was buzzing away.
| sph wrote:
| And decades before the Raspberry Pi.
| frantathefranta wrote:
| Happened to me recently when moving. Couldn't find one of
| my zigbee temperature sensors, but it was still reporting
| information diligently, so it had to be somewhere in the
| house. Took about 6 months before I found it.
| aspenmayer wrote:
| Where was it?
| frantathefranta wrote:
| Anticlimactic, partly unpacked moving box. I was mostly
| surprised it was able to re-join the mesh while being in
| a completely different spot, something that a lot zigbee
| chips struggle with.
| aspenmayer wrote:
| I'm reminded of the time I dropped a Juul behind/beside a
| makeshift workshop table and it magnetically attached
| itself a foot or so below to the freestanding metal
| shelving unit directly next to it.
|
| I don't advise using Juul products for this and other
| reasons.
| mynameisash wrote:
| This sounds complicated. I should grab my robe and wizard
| hat.
| bluedino wrote:
| Hah! I see you've never dealt with Rackspace hosting.
| cbsks wrote:
| That was a few years ago now... it's probably up to hunter19 at
| least.
| sph wrote:
| * At least 1 capital letter is required
|
| * At least 1 number is required
|
| * At least 1 symbol is required
|
| These days it's probably 'Hunter2024!'
| mathrawka wrote:
| Hunter2 holds such a special place in our hearts, let's
| keep politics out of this!
| cogman10 wrote:
| Besides, we know it's Hunter2028! No way he's running
| this cycle.
| sph wrote:
| I'm so European I didnt even make the connection to your
| politics
| davchana wrote:
| My work password changes every 90 days. It is at 52nd
| iteration now.
| soperj wrote:
| You don't go back to 0? Generally you can after the 24th
| iteration. Also congrats on sticking with it for nearly 13
| years!
| boring_twenties wrote:
| They should have made everything available as a torrent or
| something
| hangonhn wrote:
| Did you put on your robe and wizard hat first?
| c0l0 wrote:
| Someone needs to put on their robe and wizard hat and fix this
| properly :'(
| Havoc wrote:
| I cast a level 99 resurrect spell on the server
| belthesar wrote:
| Easy there, bloodninja.
| sergiotapia wrote:
| "I pry apart that battleship you call your ass" xD - what a
| tremendous loss!
| shagie wrote:
| ... and wand. https://i.imgur.com/SQjQz.png
| ricardo81 wrote:
| >old internet
|
| Reminds me of Gigablast disappearing, a search engine that was in
| the spotlight in the early 00's, a sole developer competing
| amongst AlltheWeb and Google.
|
| When their site disappeared there was barely a mention.
|
| I guess since the mass of geocities was uprooted it's become the
| norm, the churn of the web and generally accepted. archive.org is
| great, but it does seem strange how transient information has
| become on the web. HN and archive.org have good memories.
| vanjajaja1 wrote:
| can't they just put all the quotes on wikipedia or twitter or
| something
| ricardo81 wrote:
| far better off as an independent entity beyond those
| centralised place's ever changing rules.
| hn92726819 wrote:
| Is it? It was its own private entity and now it's offline
| probably forever.
|
| Edit: I think it'd be far better off on Wikipedia than
| Twitter
| viraptor wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950912
|
| Mirrors still exist
|
| (Also, Twitter already deleted old data, so these quotes
| wouldn't be much safer there)
| ricardo81 wrote:
| Yes, for the reason mentioned but also because it has a
| longer lifespan than Wikipedia and Twitter to date.
| Am4TIfIsER0ppos wrote:
| Wikipedia deletionists would cull it. Twitter is going down the
| drain if you believe the popular opinions but it would mess up
| the formatting anyway.
| themaninthedark wrote:
| Wikiquotes?
| nayuki wrote:
| Wikipedia isn't an appropriate place for Bash quotes because
| Wikipedia is an encyclopedia about broad concepts. Also,
| Wikipedia as a policy is not a primary source.
|
| Wikiquotes could be appropriate. Submitting a dump of the
| entire database to Archive.org could be appropriate. (For
| example, Archive.org hosts user-submitted dumps of things like
| product manuals, old TV shows, old computer games.)
| perryprog wrote:
| Considering the quotes have an unknown, and almost certainly
| not public domain or CC BY-SA license[1], they wouldn't be
| appropriate for any Wikimedia project.
|
| [1] And even if submitting required licensing the
| contribution under some Wikimedia-friendly license,
| considering each person included in a quote would also have
| to agree to such a license... and I have a feeling bloodninja
| wasn't following up their conversations with "would you mind
| sending me a signed release of the above six (6) messages
| under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license
| version 3.0?"
| astrodust wrote:
| Twitter itself got deleted.
| nosrepa wrote:
| It's all on archive.org
| eugenekolo wrote:
| Always surprised when some of these sites shut down. The
| operating cost seems low and putting on a few ads (ethical, non-
| intrusive, etc.) can net you passive $100+/mo.
| michaelcampbell wrote:
| It's more than money, they still require care and feeding.
|
| At some age (and I'm getting to that), you just tire of being a
| sysadm, esp. for "home"/hobby stuff.
| kekebo wrote:
| A historical archive of something should allow for robust,
| non-interactive ways to persist. Maybe there should be
| standards for this. In the mean time we can find gratitude to
| archive.org and similar services
| bayindirh wrote:
| Even if it's a static HTML, you need to patch your webserver,
| OS, and migrate the whole stack to newer versions.
|
| This is why I'm scaling down my home infrastructure to SBCs
| and run everything on Debian with stock package repositories.
| It reduces tons of burden to something very manageable.
| tomrod wrote:
| Non-sysadmin here. For static HTML, why is server
| patching/OS needed if things are locked down?
| bayindirh wrote:
| A webserver like Apache and NGINX are way more complex
| than they look. It's sometimes possible to exploit bugs
| with benign/simple requests, even if you don't run
| advanced stacks on them. See [0] for example.
|
| If you're not running strict firewall rules to limit your
| SSH access and if you expose other services outside, they
| also need constant patching against newer attacks.
|
| Lastly, security standards evolve. Your SSH and SSL
| layers need to be kept up to date to patch holes and add
| newer algorithms while deprecating others, further
| reducing the attack surface [1].
|
| [0]: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50383
|
| [1]: https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-
| announce/20...
| toyg wrote:
| Because no software is perfect, which means every lock
| has weaknesses that sooner or later get found out.
| Chances are that, say, a Linux 2.x server that was
| considered "very secure" in 2005 would now be pwned in a
| few hours.
| mschuster91 wrote:
| Because both the Linux kernel and whatever SSL and web
| server stack you use regularly have their remotely
| exploitable vulnerabilities.
| boring_twenties wrote:
| Static HTML means you don't have your own code to worry
| about vulnerabilities in. Vulnerabilities in the server
| or OS software don't just go away.
| jefftk wrote:
| If it's static HTML you can put it on Github Pages and
| leave it alone.
| bayindirh wrote:
| Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't.
|
| Sometimes you will, sometimes you won't.
|
| :)
| johnklos wrote:
| "Even if it's just static text, you need to patch your OS,
| update your text editor and migrate the whole document to
| newer versions."
|
| Nah. That's bull. A static site can be put on a web server
| and the site never needs to be updated again. I have web
| sites people started hosting on my servers in the '90s that
| are still there, still serving, and haven't been touched in
| twenty years.
|
| Sure, I update the servers and software, but the actual
| amount of work needed for the site is, quite literally,
| zero.
| redcobra762 wrote:
| Which ones? ...for research purposes only, of course.
| johnklos wrote:
| I have several dozen that go back at least two decades,
| but I don't think I should post them without asking the
| owners. OTOH, here's a rather public one:
|
| http://www.baloneypotd.com/
| TylerE wrote:
| Someone has to run the server. That's the point.
| KomoD wrote:
| For $100+/mo you can easily have someone manage that.
| bayindirh wrote:
| For simple servers, unattended upgrades and an automatic
| mail whenever server needs a restart (like kernel
| updates) is enough. I'd put that $100 to a piggy bank
| every month instead.
| TylerE wrote:
| Easily said when it's not your $100/mo for something that
| no longer interests you.
| bayindirh wrote:
| > Sure, I update the servers and software, but the actual
| amount of work needed for the site is, quite literally,
| zero.
|
| I think this is what I said? Quoting myself:
|
| > Even if it's a static HTML, you need to patch your
| webserver, OS, and migrate the whole stack to newer
| versions.
|
| I don't think I said "you need to update/patch the
| webpage itself".
|
| Huh. The password masking algorithm changes some words
| possibly.
| johnklos wrote:
| I was making the point that the web server can just keep
| getting updated by virtue of being part of an active
| server. Separately, the site doesn't need any updating /
| maintenance.
|
| The same person or people who run the servers aren't
| necessarily the same person or people who make the web
| sites.
|
| People can just as easily have static sites on SDF.org.
| There'd be no reason for anyone to fret about whether the
| servers are up to date.
|
| Also, nobody ever needs to "migrate the whole stack to
| newer versions". That's just not a thing with a static
| site.
| progman32 wrote:
| Stick it on s3, tell cloudfront to serve from the bucket,
| and let that sucker run almost unattended till aws shuts
| down.
| bayindirh wrote:
| Why complicate everything when I can serve it with webfs
| (a tiny webserver), from a tiny SBC from a cabinet in my
| room, or from a VM and concentrate all my services to it
| while paying not too much money and have all the
| flexibility in the world?
|
| I don't like to use oversized tools for small jobs. Also,
| it's not fun.
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| > a few ads (ethical, non-intrusive, etc.) can net you passive
| $100+/mo.
|
| No way. That's barely true of Adsense anymore much less
| whatever non-Adsense network you have in mind. And not for a
| dead site like bash.org.
| BlackJack wrote:
| So sad to hear that. QDB brought me so much joy to read.
| dale_glass wrote:
| Wasn't it already dead for ages?
|
| I remember back when it got popular it seemed to stop accepting
| submissions after a short time.
|
| And the hunter2 stuff got stuck on the top list forever, probably
| because the mechanism is self-reinforcing by making it easiest to
| vote for the stuff already on the top.
| joenot443 wrote:
| Anyone got a screenname for the dev originally behind it?
| diggan wrote:
| Maybe this helps?
|
| > Managers: Ninety
|
| > Moderators: Amanda, vx0, kastein
|
| I'm guessing they might be around on Libera or Freenode
| LeonM wrote:
| Oh man, that is so sad to hear.
|
| bash.org has given me endless laughs. It always cheered me up.
|
| Its too bad the the top 100/200 hadn't changed in years. I guess
| that's because IRC has been mostly dead for a while now (no more
| new submission) and that the voting algorithm favored a self-
| feeding feedback loop. Nonetheless, it was fun to come back once
| every few years and re-read the top quotes.
|
| Hopefully someone revives the site. Hopefully it's just that the
| server needs some love or something. Do we have any idea who is
| behind it?
| MOARDONGZPLZ wrote:
| > Its too bad the the top 100/200 hadn't changed in years.
|
| I checked it every couple years or so when I remembered some
| part of some top quote and wanted to get the full thing. I
| always saw the top quotes never changed, so I just assumed the
| entire site wasn't really updated.
| gaws wrote:
| > _I guess that 's because IRC has been mostly dead for a while
| now_
|
| False
| munro wrote:
| I just had an argument over IRC with a stranger on the internet
| last week. We're still out there.
|
| I thought the humor on this site hadn't aged well, but this one
| got me: < pronto> :( < GiftdKook> Turn
| that frown upside down! < korozion> ):
| thunderbong wrote:
| Sorry, I don't get it!
| another-dave wrote:
| People say "turn that frown upside down" as a phrase to mean
| "don't frown, smile!"
|
| But the poster flipped the emoji so it was a frowning face
| pointing right, then a frowning face pointing left
| bombcar wrote:
| "Turn that frown upside down" means to smile, instead, :( to
| :)
|
| But the chatter just flipped the whole face, so it's still
| sad: :( ):
| crindy wrote:
| "Turn that frown upside down" is a way of saying - don't be
| sad, be happy. Instead of having the corners of your mouth
| point down (frown), have them point up (smile). The joke is
| that if you move the eyes to the other side of the mouth, it
| remains a frown.
|
| Expectation
|
| :( becomes :)
|
| Subversion
|
| :( becomes ):
| stevage wrote:
| It's a very American expression. In British culture a frown
| refers to a forehead expression, not a mouth expression.
| ihaveajob wrote:
| The intended goal was to get the other person to reply :) by
| inverting the mouth. Instead, the whole "frown face" was
| inverted.
| prook wrote:
| And you never will!
| sph wrote:
| Geez, the number of people that don't recognise bash.org
| quotes saddens me.
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20230401050146/http://bash.org/
| ?...
| phibz wrote:
| .bef Duck friends
| nullhole wrote:
| You're trying to befriend a non-existing duck!
|
| (some sort of duck game for HN could be neat. Can't see why
| it wouldn't be possible...)
| nickjj wrote:
| I remember a similar quote that was something like:
| <user> :b <someone> how did you make that backwards d?
| z500 wrote:
| I remember that one! It was d-_-b
| ryankrage77 wrote:
| There's also, <user 1> <3 <user 2> 3>
| wait how do you do that <user 2> e> nvm figured it out
| swozey wrote:
| I know everything is logged but I basically quit using irc when
| tons of channels started having bots that would log EVERYTHING
| in a room to public urls.
|
| But it is really cool that I can read channel logs from events,
| like 9/11.
| pmlnr wrote:
| My all time favourite:
|
| <Khassaki> HI EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!
|
| <Judge-Mental> try pressing the the Caps Lock key
|
| <Khassaki> O THANKS!!! ITS SO MUCH EASIER TO WRITE NOW!!!!!!!
|
| <Judge-Mental> fuck me
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bash.org/?835030
| bayindirh wrote:
| This is my favorite "brain brown-out" moment:
| <i8b4uUnderground> d-_-b <BonyNoMore> how u make that
| inverted b? <BonyNoMore> wait <BonyNoMore>
| never mind
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20230709002522/http://bash.org/?...
| inversetelecine wrote:
| I want to believe the "d" in inverted being right next to the
| "b?" is what set the lights off right away.
| sph wrote:
| Also, from memory:
|
| <h|tler> HOW CAN YOU TELL IM 13 BY HOW IM WRITEING???????
| jwilk wrote:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20021129061103/http://www.bash.o.
| ..
| throwaway_08932 wrote:
| CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!!!!!!!!
| adhesive_wombat wrote:
| This is what happens when you don't use a proper capital-S Stack.
| Probably they weren't even using Kubernetes and a separate multi-
| cloud management DB for monitoring their data pipeline ingest.
| daneel_w wrote:
| On-point sarcasm. Have an upvote.
| halfmatthalfcat wrote:
| Rather they have some bare metal, FTP-ing files directly to
| prod, right?
| MrDarcy wrote:
| At least one thing has stayed constant: bash brings up both
| the kube cluster today as it brought up the prod server in
| the 90's
| hhh wrote:
| Generally brings them down, too.
| zomg wrote:
| total bummer. i had contributed a bunch of great convos over the
| years. is there a mirror?
| poisonborz wrote:
| There were also national versions, e.g. http://bash.hu is still
| online. Would love to have a collection, there is far too little
| sociological/folklore research about the net.
| kratom_sandwich wrote:
| http://www.ibash.de for Germany :-)
| Sakos wrote:
| I think I recognize some of these from bash.org. Are all of
| these just translated? xD Or maybe I read them somewhere else
| ... god, it's been so long.
| k__ wrote:
| There was another site, called german-bash.org, but it went
| down last year :/
| balou23 wrote:
| Newfangled stuff... german-bash.org was the original.
|
| Has also been dead for 2 years now. I found a 20 year old
| quote of mine on archive.org. How time flies.
| viddi wrote:
| Not quite. The very first German bash.org clone is
| https://bash.pilgerer.org/
| kqr wrote:
| https://warpdrive.se/ is a Swedish variant.
| diggan wrote:
| That reminds me about the time when I used to run a similar
| website but focused on quotes from the IRC run by Flashback
| Forum (one of the larger/the largest? discussion forums in
| the Nordics).
|
| Apparently I put the source for the site on GitHub
| (https://github.com/victorb/Flashback-Citat [12 year old PHP
| code!]) but I cannot find any actual archive of any of the
| quotes nor the running website, sadly :/
| akho wrote:
| bash.im, the Russian version, was replaced with a "NO WAR"
| message for a while, and now it's gone.
| skjoldr wrote:
| bash.org.ru/bash.im is now bashorg.rf
| akho wrote:
| Different team.
| CrlNvl wrote:
| https://danstonchat.com/ (previously bashfr.org) for
| France/French speaking countries
| theshrike79 wrote:
| https://ircquotes.fi is the Finnish equivalent
| frantathefranta wrote:
| https://lamer.cz/ in Czech Republic. Definitely thought that
| was the original long time ago.
| jwilk wrote:
| Polish: http://bash.org.pl/
| mgdlbp wrote:
| ccTLDs, inexhaustive
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20100222/http://bash.org.az
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20070217/http://bash.org.by
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20060424/http://bash.org.il
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20071022/http://bash.org.kg
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20061203/http://bash.org.lv
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20090830/http://bash.org.md
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20060101/http://bash.org.pl
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20090421/http://bash.org.ro
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20040611/http://bash.org.ru
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20110523/http://bash.org.tj
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20080105/http://bash.org.ua
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20101117/http://ibash.org.pl
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20070609/http://ibash.org.ru
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20091004/http://bash.cc
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20030805/http://bash.cx
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20080315/http://bash.ee
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20040608/http://bash.hu
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20090322/http://bash.im
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20060205/http://bash.lv
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20180314/http://bash.no
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20060112/http://bash.ro
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20080219/http://bash.tj
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20120114/http://bash.tk
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20061115/http://ibash.de
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20160109/http://ibash.im
| mgdlbp wrote:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20040212/http://bash.fi
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20070227/http://qdb.gr
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20060402/http://qdb.hu
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20040420/http://qdb.us
| 20after4 wrote:
| Wikimedia has their own bash.org clone:
| https://bash.toolforge.org/random
| 6510 wrote:
| I remember first being pointed to the site for having said:
| _Wanting a man who doesn 't smell is like wanting a woman who
| doesn't talk._
|
| Its importance was immediately obvious.
| susam wrote:
| The last snapshot in the Wayback Machine seems to be from 19 Jul
| 2023:
| http://web.archive.org/web/20230719193319/http://www.bash.or...
| incomingpain wrote:
| Is everyone abandoning bash?
|
| Zsh?
|
| Fish?
| justusthane wrote:
| Wrong bash. Bash.org didn't have anything to do with the shell,
| it was a database of funny IRC quotes.
| incomingpain wrote:
| I tried going to the website, but well it's no more. Guess
| I'll be taking my downvotes and flagging now for being an
| idiot.
| kstrauser wrote:
| I upvoted for your gracious acceptance.
| gtirloni wrote:
| Last successful archive (July 2023):
| https://web.archive.org/web/20230719194509/http://bash.org/
| _0xdd wrote:
| Oh man. This would be the perfect site for ProtoWeb to restore.
| lazycog512 wrote:
| I still wonder if those two ever met up at the beach.
| Demiurge wrote:
| One of my all time favorite sites on the interenet, I am glad
| there is an archive version.
|
| IRC and being ASCII only had their benefits. These days, Discord
| displacing IRC, for most people who even have PCs, there is a
| much different vibe of re-posting meme pics and gifs, or even
| youtube videos.
|
| Yet, I don't know if this is because of the higher production
| requirements, or not, but there isn't a database of spontaneous
| funny moments.
| naremu wrote:
| Ironically, many of the "respectable" discord servers (i.e.
| revolving around hobbies people under the age of 18
| aren't/can't get into) seem to not allow cross-server emojis
| (which mostly stops all usage of them and discourages gif-
| memeing as well).
|
| Combined with "compact" mode in user settings, I find myself
| having a vaguely IRC-like experience in the servers worth
| participating in.
|
| Terrible shame how many of us have come full circle just to do
| the same things on the corpo's surveillance state owned land
| instead of our own.
| Demiurge wrote:
| Yeah, I am getting prompted to subscribe and pay to even
| participte. Perhaps it's part of the larger theme of
| capitalism and monetization consuming all parts of human
| existence, including those that come from a purely artistic
| or communicative self expression. It's supposed to be part of
| the technological progress that builds us up, as a society,
| but I am strugging to fill the bash.org void.
| crtasm wrote:
| A lot of the Discords I've experienced have a dedicated
| channel for gifs/memes, seems to work quite well.
| Vorh wrote:
| The reasoning behind the banning of cross-server emojis in
| most "respectable" servers is that you can split an image
| into a 5x5 grid of "emoji" and post images in channels you're
| not supposed to. It's a mess.
| sph wrote:
| > being ASCII only
|
| Somehow, in the age of TikTok and Discord, ASCII art has
| survived
|
| <insert amogus ASCII art here>
| opan wrote:
| >IRC and being ASCII only had their benefits.
|
| I still use IRC every day and you can send unicode emoji,
| Japanese, etc. just fine (via external tools or copy/paste
| typically). It's up to the client/terminal emulator/font on the
| other end to make it look right. Plus posting links to
| images/videos, either at random public spots or ones you just
| uploaded to a filesharing site, is pretty common.
|
| I have only been to bash.org a handful of times, but multiple
| channels I'm in have their own bots that can store quotes and
| spit them back out later, so it's a bit more small and local
| than bash.org. It's only for single-line messages, though, so
| not the same as capturing a whole conversation. I do also
| occasionally grab some lines to dump in a text file for
| personal enjoyment.
| dihrbtk wrote:
| IRC doesn't actually specify an encoding for messages, only
| limiting each message to 512 bytes IIRC. This could and did
| cause encoding issues when dealing with non-english language
| text.
| panzagl wrote:
| If they forgot the root p/w its hunter2
| jdlyga wrote:
| The server that runs it probably got updated to Windows 10
| that_guy_iain wrote:
| My fav quote of all time was:
|
| <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to
| ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my
| apartment it is.
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that
| allows you to stab people in the face over the internet
|
| We aren't encouraged to have this kind of fun on public forums
| anymore. I don't know why exactly, but I do know we're not better
| off for dropping this humor.
| redcobra762 wrote:
| Oh please, if you've interacted at all with a video game
| community in the last decade you know this kind of humor is
| alive and well...
| LAC-Tech wrote:
| It is, but it will get you banned.
|
| Has no one else noticed the rise of censorship evading slang
| among zoomers? Eg saying "unalive" instead of "kill". I
| remember there was a big file with a bunch of these for
| chinese youth I found fascinating some 15 years ago. And now
| we have to do it too.
| redcobra762 wrote:
| Oh yeah because burdening children with the challenges
| of... using slightly different words... is a real shame.
| LAC-Tech wrote:
| Are you saying censorship is fine because people can just
| use other words?
|
| There really is no point engaging with you then.
| sph wrote:
| It's not censorship, it's new^H^H^Hbetterspeak (tm). A
| more friendly and inclusive version of the English
| language.
| redcobra762 wrote:
| You call it censorship, I call it freedom of association.
| These are private organizations deciding what they allow
| on their own platforms.
|
| But more importantly the "kind of humor" your originally
| highlighted is absolutely alive, as evidenced by your own
| point that people use words to get around whatever
| censorship there is of the most extreme versions of that
| humor.
| LAC-Tech wrote:
| The older I get the less useful I think this distinction
| between "official" and "unofficial" is. "Officially" King
| Charles can dissolve the UK parliament, but
| "unofficially" he can't. Power is power and we know it
| when we see it.
|
| So yes I would call being banned or having your language
| limited by major global platforms "censorship", despite
| the fact that officially they're just private
| organisations.
| redcobra762 wrote:
| You're just saying you only care about some people's
| rights and not others. Part of the 1a and the general
| concept of freedom is that you don't have to put up with
| people saying stupid shit everywhere, such as in your own
| home.
| Kronopath wrote:
| The similarity to China isn't a coincidence. This is all
| coming from the cultural dominance of TikTok among young
| people, which (to my knowledge) algorithmically downranks
| any content that has those words in them.
|
| It's a common Chinese strategy, born of Chinese censorship
| requirements, which TikTok naturally used when presented
| with similar-enough problems outside of China.
| LAC-Tech wrote:
| This goes far beyond TikTok. Twitch, Youtube, the
| jurisdictions of Canada, the UK, Australia... this is one
| thing I'm not willing to blame China for, I am just
| noting how close it is the same thing that China does.
| sph wrote:
| It's probably from the era of content silo algorithms that
| really do not like and punish your content for saying
| certain words, like COVID-19 in mid 2020, or "dead" today
| (I seem to recall a YouTuber having to beep himself saying
| that word very recently)
|
| These kids grow and learn with Youtube after all.
|
| Don't blame zoomers, blame American puritanism in tech.
| LAC-Tech wrote:
| I'm not blaming zoomers, no more than I am blaming
| chinese youth who have to talk about "aquatic producers"
| to avoid being censored for even discussing censorship.
|
| Ironically I tried looking for a list of officially
| banned words on twitch. All I found was journalist spam
| 'summarising' and telling me how I should feel about it.
|
| One site had a list of 50 words, all of which they
| censored, literally:
|
| - N-word
|
| - F-word
|
| - C-word
|
| - S-word
|
| - T-word
|
| When I scrolled to the end ( "A*kissing" ), I got a
| newsletter popup.
| d0odk wrote:
| Someone remind the admin his password is hunter2
| ryandv wrote:
| What a shame. IRC is one of the few protocols left of the early
| Internet that hasn't been aggressively commercialized and
| colonized by corporate interests, and this is just another nail
| in the coffin.
|
| Often times I wonder why basically _everything_ must be on the
| Web, and if all that historical baggage and complexity is really
| necessary, or even worth it at all.
| agentultra wrote:
| Even many social services provided by governments in the west
| are not available to you unless you have access to the web.
|
| Sounds like we're headed in the right direction... if you're in
| the business of selling shovels.
| kridsdale1 wrote:
| IRC was commercialized very successfully. It's called Slack and
| Discord.
| cobertos wrote:
| Twitch chat also uses IRC
| mondobe wrote:
| So does the online multiplayer for Worms: Armageddon,
| ChanServ and all.
| puzzlingcaptcha wrote:
| IIRC the original Battlenet (Starcraft etc) also used it.
| opello wrote:
| Yes! We had Diablo 2 Battle.net bots that were IRC
| clients. :) Fond memories.
| PokemonNoGo wrote:
| Can you connect to it with a regular client?
| ericbarrett wrote:
| You could back in the early days (I did it), not sure
| today.
| themoonisachees wrote:
| You still can, it's very useful for bots and game
| integrations because you just need an IRC lib in your
| language of choice. However, the servers aren't IRC
| anymore, they just have a compat shim that speaks IRC for
| those purposes.
| fivre wrote:
| yes, i use irssi to hold persistent sessions for all the
| twitch chats im in. doesn't require anything special
| beyond an oauth token sent as the server password
| s3krit wrote:
| neither of those things use IRC. unless you're just referring
| to channel-based instant messaging.
| fivre wrote:
| the original "protocol not commercialized" sentiment in the
| OP is a bit odd. nobody commercialized HTTP per se (okay,
| you could make an argument for SaaS CDN proxies, but i
| don't think that was the spirit of the original argument),
| they commercialized things you could deliver using it. the
| channel-based real time chat model is what mattered, not
| the intricate details of how the underlying bits are
| delivered
|
| functionally, Discord and Slack have commercialized that
| model, with clear and obvious effects for people that were
| using IRC. every community i was part of via IRC has
| migrated to those services, and i haven't encountered a new
| community on IRC in forever, but have encountered plenty of
| new Discord communities
| ryandv wrote:
| The particular point about protocols is that IRC is dead-
| simple to implement. It's all ASCII/UTF-8, CRLF-delimited
| messages of space-separated tokens. You can get a working
| implementation with the stdlib of most languages in about
| 200 lines. The protocol hasn't really changed much over
| the years.
|
| Contrast with HTTP and other related web technologies,
| whose specifications are so complex that only the largest
| tech firms can even dream of building their own
| implementations, let alone achieving full standards
| compliance. Moreover, those standards are also often
| driven by those same corporate interests who own
| significant usage share in the browser space.
|
| To the extent that corporate interests will advocate for
| standards in their own self-interest (recent example:
| Google WEI), I would say that the protocol has been
| commercialized.
| ascorbic wrote:
| Even if Slack doesn't IRC it is absolutely based on it,
| down to slash commands and channel name syntax.
| fernandotakai wrote:
| i mean, i hope people remember that slack had an irc
| bridge and it was awesome. i used to use irssi there was
| no linux slack app.
| JeffSnazz wrote:
| I was able to have literally months of logs from a dozen
| servers streamed to a single app running with 1/256th the
| memory I have in the laptop I'm writing on, and it was both
| more responsive and had more features. And you didn't need to
| deal with anyone's custom emoticons or gif spam. That is a
| _serious_ loss from my perspective.
|
| Hell, just today I was trying to figure out how to use native
| emoji in Discord. Turns out, you can't, and they just force you
| to deal with those god-awful cartoony ones. Ugh. One day
| someone will come back around and reimplement basic text chat
| as a "minimal", "sleek", or "uncluttered" experience and we'll
| come full-circle. Maybe it'll even use XMPP this time....
| Vorh wrote:
| You actually can, you have to preface your emoji with a
| backslash.
| JeffSnazz wrote:
| Oh wow, thank you!
| heyoni wrote:
| We need to take a serious step back as a society to declutter
| our digital lives. It's why I want beeper to succeed so
| badly. It's become atrociously difficult to just transmit
| text, it never needed to become this bloated of an
| experience.
| pwg wrote:
| > Often times I wonder why basically _everything_ must be on
| the Web
|
| Because for the great majority of users, i.e. those who thought
| that "the internet" lived inside the blue "e" icon for IE on
| Win XP, or those who "break their cup holders" [1] they have
| great difficulty handling the fact that they need to launch
| different apps on their computer for different purposes and so
| everything has coalesced around "web based" as the lowest
| common denominator in an attempt to accommodate everyone.
|
| [1]https://www.ebaumsworld.com/jokes/computer-cup-holder-
| joke/8...
| krapp wrote:
| I'm pretty sure the great majority of users nowadays have
| only ever interacted with the internet through apps on a
| tablet or phone. And even the dinosaurs who "logged on" when
| desktops and icons were a thing knew how to launch different
| apps on their computer for different purposes because that's
| how Windows worked, and people were using home computers
| before the web and web browsers even came along.
|
| The decision to appify the web was an economic one made not
| on behalf of the end user, but corporations. It's cheaper to
| write a website or a webapp than a native application, to
| distribute bits than burn a CD or cartridge. It's cheaper to
| publish in bits than ink and paper. It's cheaper to handle
| electronic forms than physical, mailed in forms. It's cheaper
| to send an email than call someone on the telephone.
| mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote:
| Do you have any data to support your assertion that a "great
| majority"(whatever that means) of users in the present "have
| great difficulty handling the fact that they need to launch
| different apps on their computer for different purposes"?
|
| Because it seems wildly hyperbolic. We're not in the year
| 1995 anymore.
| throwitaway1123 wrote:
| > Because it seems wildly hyperbolic. We're not in the year
| 1995 anymore.
|
| That's exactly what I was thinking. We're not in the 90s
| when people thought AOL and the internet were synonyms.
| dubcanada wrote:
| The great majority of people grew up with the internet at
| this point, and this is largely not true.
| arccy wrote:
| not for the want of trying, (see freenode)
| pixl97 wrote:
| >I wonder why basically _everything_ must be on the Web
|
| NAT. You can thank NAT for making the internet far worse.
| Vicinity9635 wrote:
| How good IRC is only makes me hate how awful discord is in
| comparison.
| netprole wrote:
| i put on my robe and lower my wizard hat
| green-salt wrote:
| Going through it again I now remember how much of my humor is
| derived from there.
| allywilson wrote:
| Contacted their/Stablepoint's support bot:
|
| Today
|
| What happened to bash.org?
|
| Hello there! YR
|
| I will be happy to assist you but it appears that the support PIN
| you entered might be incorrect. Can you double-check, please?
|
| Yordan R.
|
| I haven't entered any support PIN
|
| Can you please provide me with it as I need to verify the
| account? YR
|
| You should be able to see your verification number by going to
| the client area --> Support--> And on the left side you will see
| your support pin.
|
| Yordan R.
|
| I've not got an account YR
|
| I see that the website you mentioned (bash.org) is hosted with
| us, it's resolving from our server, but without your support PIN
| I'm unable to check it further due to security reasons
|
| Yordan R.
|
| OK, can I suggest you reach out to the owner of the site and, in
| a kind, proactive way, let them know it's not working and the
| internet is upset with them?
|
| See discussion here:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950721 YR
|
| Got it, thanks
| Akronymus wrote:
| > let them know it's not working and the internet is upset with
| them?
|
| That part seems like a dick move, to me personally. That
| implies that the site operator did something bad.
| selimthegrim wrote:
| RIP BibleBot
| jpswade wrote:
| No doubt now archived forever and available in ChatGPT.
| riley333 wrote:
| But... but... What happens after I put my robe and wizard hat
| on?!
| throwaway_08932 wrote:
| A few years ago, I read all of bash.org from beginning to end. It
| took about a week of transit rides.
|
| There were a lot of laughs, but a huge proportion of it was slurs
| directed at Black people and women. It's probably time for it to
| fade away.
|
| The quotes I remember the most were (paraphrased)
|
| 1. Best ebay review ever -- bought item for my brother who had
| cancer, item never arrived and my brother died
|
| 2. Something about writing a warranty about installing a cinder
| block in a window and then throwing it through a window at the
| Sony headquarters
|
| 3. "There's no such thing as a sin on the battlefield." "Opposite
| over hypotenuse. dipshit"
| throwawaaarrgh wrote:
| I put on my robe and wizard hat.... for the last time. :'(
| phibz wrote:
| RIP #linuxhelp and #linux. Some good times there. Now bash.org is
| gone its like it never happened.
| ajitmanware wrote:
| HET
| ajitmanware wrote:
| HATE
| thegeekpirate wrote:
| It was one of the only websites that worked on my old Nokia
| phone, so I'd read it non-stop while on transit.
|
| So long, and thanks for all the fish!
| pmarreck wrote:
| I put on my robe and wizard hat...
| MauranKilom wrote:
| Most recently, I was using bash.org as my go-to non-HTTPS site
| for captive portal purposes (back when HTTPS Everywhere was a
| useful extensions). But the built-into-Firefox HTTPS only
| treatment handles captive portals gracefully already, so I didn't
| actually visit in a while.
|
| Goodbye!
| meatmanek wrote:
| I use http://alwayshttp.com for this.
| Vicinity9635 wrote:
| "If you refresh your page and you are still reading this, it
| means you're on the internet! Have fun, be safe and don't
| forget to bring a towel."
|
| d'aww
| Titan2189 wrote:
| https://neverssl.com/
| p1mrx wrote:
| http://http.rip/ is better, if you want https to actually
| fail.
| cratermoon wrote:
| ^<@< has left the chat.
| brlcad wrote:
| I'd be happy to host the site in perpetuity on one of our
| dedicated hosts (for free). Have hosted the sites for a number of
| notable open source communities for decades.
| pmarreck wrote:
| Would love to write a Bash function that selects a random quote
| from a DB of all of them and prints it out (for use when opening
| a new terminal, for example)
| pmarreck wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23326177 is a previous
| discussion on this that mentions a database. I'd love a copy of
| such a quote DB but the site mentioned now requires a
| login/password
| abbbi wrote:
| sad :( I still prefer IRC over all these other solutions like
| discord. They just don't feel right.
| oakpond wrote:
| No! Bring it back now!!
| linsomniac wrote:
| "Danny?!?" "Mom?!?"
| rightisleft wrote:
| rightisleft slaps you around with a large trout
| linsomniac wrote:
| The "Top 100", when I first read it, long long ago, had me
| laughing so hard I was afraid I'd wake up other people in the
| house.
| https://web.archive.org/web/20230709210553/http://bash.org/?...
| forgotmypw17 wrote:
| If anyone is interested in seeing a gallery of Bash.org-inspired
| websites (over 100 of them), I've made a gallery as a tribute:
|
| https://qdb.us/image.html
|
| (original creator of QDB here, before it moved to bash.org)
| dmd wrote:
| Mirror from 3 years ago:
| https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes
| MOARDONGZPLZ wrote:
| That's ok. A bastion of nostalgia that seemingly hadn't been
| updated in literal decades, or at least the top submissions
| hadn't. I was using the internet in the 90s when Bash.org was
| created, and appreciated the humor a lot, and laughed very hard
| many times at the same jokes for years.
|
| However, (very unpopular opinion) after decades of people
| repeating the exact same jokes from Bash.org, the formerly
| nostalgia inducing jokes started grating on me a lot. The
| password *** hunter2 joke has made me cringe at its extreme
| overuse for at least ten years, or the computer responding to
| ping but being physically unfindable. If they weren't going to do
| anything with the site, it would have been better to kill it in
| 2010 with fond memories rather than let the jokes be beaten like
| a dead horse for 20 years.
| sumobob2112 wrote:
| I take off my robe and lower my wizard hat in respect
| tiziano88 wrote:
| I'm sure most people here on HN already know about the famous
| hunter2 meme, but it turns out that it is quite hard to find and
| link to the original transcript, especially since it appears the
| original website (bash.org) is no longer active. This URL
| contains the sha2-256 digest of the transcript itself, so that it
| can be preserved indefinitely for posterity. static.space is a
| website I built to allow creating this kind of content-addressed
| URLs of existing content (e.g. text, images), to ensure that it
| can always be referenced even when the original location changes.
|
| https://static.space/sha2-256:d5b215dd588bda164aca31a2eb08aa...
| loktarogar wrote:
| Great! Now I just need to memorise the sha2-256 digest of my
| favourite memes
| pests wrote:
| > i just shit on the floor and heard it land but can't find it
| > uh ?? > dropped shit****
| layer8 wrote:
| One of the classics:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20040604194346/http://bash.org/?...
| cyanydeez wrote:
| just crown it with a LLM
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