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Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

575 points by Khaine 3y ago

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.

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panzagl 3y ago
If they forgot the root p/w its hunter2
h2odragon 3y ago
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 3y ago
  I’d feel kinda sad if bash.org wasn’t using Perl or something.
  - toyg 3y ago
    IIRC it smelled of php.
    - diggan 3y ago
      Definitely PHP, I seem to remember it being mentioned in some blog/news post sometime.
  - shawabawa3 3y ago
    surely it should have been written in bash
    - pas 3y ago
      of course it should have been ported to BoB (Bash on Balls, the modern portable slick web framework)
      - dymk 3y ago
        And favored framework among the CBT community
        cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago
        Cognitive behavioural torture.
- mrweasel 3y ago
  Was the Bash.org code available somewhere? I'd love to have a look at it, just for fun.
frankjr 3y ago
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://web.archive.org/web/20230701000000*/bash.org https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes
- toyg 3y ago
  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 3y ago
    The Internet only forgets stuff you wish it wouldn’t, and remembers everything you wish it wouldn’t.
  - mulmen 3y ago
    > "The internet does not forget" is such a massive lie. This is a warning, not a guarantee.
- jwilk 3y ago
  What do they mean by "cleaned"?
  - kotaKat 3y ago
    "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 3y ago
  Ooh, we should make a Fortune database out of them! (Am I the only person still using 'fortune' as their shell motd?)
bayindirh 3y ago
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 3y ago
  Almost, the password is ********.
  - bayindirh 3y ago
    I can't read it. pfft
    - deleted 3y ago
      [deleted]
    - miroljub 3y ago
      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 3y ago
        hunter1
        markx2 3y ago
        Close. hunter2
        meepmorp 3y ago
        Wait, how did you see my password?
vanjajaja1 3y ago
can't they just put all the quotes on wikipedia or twitter or something
- nosrepa 3y ago
  It's all on archive.org
  - Bitemenow 3y ago
    https://bashforever.com/ https://bashforever.com/
- ricardo81 3y ago
  far better off as an independent entity beyond those centralised place's ever changing rules.
  - hn92726819 3y ago
    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 3y ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950912 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)
      - hn92726819 3y ago
        Backed up on centralized gitlab and centralized archive.org, huh? My point is that the comment was praising independent services when it doesn't make sense: bash.org, the independent service, shutting down and people want to store backups in a more trustworthy centralized service, much like the two backups you linked.
    - 3y ago
c0l0 3y ago
Someone needs to put on their robe and wizard hat and fix this properly :'(
- Havoc 3y ago
  I cast a level 99 resurrect spell on the server
- belthesar 3y ago
  Easy there, bloodninja.
- sergiotapia 3y ago
  "I pry apart that battleship you call your ass" xD - what a tremendous loss!
- shagie 3y ago
  ... and wand. https://i.imgur.com/SQjQz.png https://i.imgur.com/SQjQz.png
ricardo81 3y ago
>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.
eugenekolo 3y ago
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 3y ago
  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 3y ago
    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 3y ago
    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 3y ago
      Non-sysadmin here. For static HTML, why is server patching/OS needed if things are locked down?
      - bayindirh 3y ago
        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 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50383 [1]: https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/2024-January/000156.html https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/20...
BlackJack 3y ago
So sad to hear that. QDB brought me so much joy to read.
dale_glass 3y ago
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 3y ago
Anyone got a screenname for the dev originally behind it?
- diggan 3y ago
  Maybe this helps? > Managers: Ninety > Moderators: Amanda, vx0, kastein I'm guessing they might be around on Libera or Freenode
LeonM 3y ago
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 3y ago
  > 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 3y ago
  > I guess that's because IRC has been mostly dead for a while now False
  - GaryNumanVevo 3y ago
    I haven't stopped using IRC!
    - LeonM 3y ago
      Hence why I wrote mostly dead.
  - Reubachi 3y ago
    you are living in an alternate reality if you don't agree with the fact IRC is mostly dead. no enterprise is using i seriously, chat platforms of course don't use it, and niche/hobbyists have long since moved to discord and reddit. Of course there's holdouts, but I think it's fair to say 90 percent of IRC type chat hosts are dead/gone.
munro 3y ago
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 3y ago
  Sorry, I don't get it!
  - another-dave 3y ago
    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
  - grozmovoi 3y ago
    [flagged]
    - romwell 3y ago
      What does age have to do with it? "Turn that frown upside down" isn't a phrase that would make much sense to people who didn't hear it before. More so if English isn't their first language or they are neurodivergent. I don't believe I have ever heard this phrase used IRL. It's not a very nice thing to say in most contexts (saying this to another adult is outright bad - which is what makes the IRC joke funny in the first place).
      - overgard 3y ago
        He probably just meant that younger people grew up with emoji so they might not be aware of the vast array of text smileys we used to do
      - ddingus 3y ago
        I have heard it a few times. This really depends on what local lexicons you are exposed to.
pmlnr 3y ago
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 https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bash.org/?835030
- bayindirh 3y ago
  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/?330261 https://web.archive.org/web/20230709002522/http://bash.org/?...
  - inversetelecine 3y ago
    I want to believe the "d" in inverted being right next to the "b?" is what set the lights off right away.
- sph 3y ago
  Also, from memory: <h|tler> HOW CAN YOU TELL IM 13 BY HOW IM WRITEING???????
  - jwilk 3y ago
    https://web.archive.org/web/20021129061103/http://www.bash.org/?14207 https://web.archive.org/web/20021129061103/http://www.bash.o...
- throwaway_08932 3y ago
  CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!!!!!!!!
- more_corn 3y ago
  I didn’t remember that one. Thanks, I haven’t laughed that hard in a while.
adhesive_wombat 3y ago
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 3y ago
  On-point sarcasm. Have an upvote.
- halfmatthalfcat 3y ago
  Rather they have some bare metal, FTP-ing files directly to prod, right?
  - MrDarcy 3y ago
    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 3y ago
      Generally brings them down, too.
- deleted 3y ago
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zomg 3y ago
total bummer. i had contributed a bunch of great convos over the years. is there a mirror?
poisonborz 3y ago
There were also national versions, e.g. http://bash.hu 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 3y ago
  http://www.ibash.de http://www.ibash.de for Germany :-)
  - Sakos 3y ago
    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__ 3y ago
      There was another site, called german-bash.org, but it went down last year :/
  - balou23 3y ago
    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 3y ago
      Not quite. The very first German bash.org clone is https://bash.pilgerer.org/ https://bash.pilgerer.org/
- kqr 3y ago
  https://warpdrive.se/ https://warpdrive.se/ is a Swedish variant.
  - diggan 3y ago
6510 3y ago
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 3y ago
The last snapshot in the Wayback Machine seems to be from 19 Jul 2023: http://web.archive.org/web/20230719193319/http://www.bash.org/?top http://web.archive.org/web/20230719193319/http://www.bash.or...
incomingpain 3y ago
Is everyone abandoning bash? Zsh? Fish?
- justusthane 3y ago
  Wrong bash. Bash.org didn't have anything to do with the shell, it was a database of funny IRC quotes.
  - incomingpain 3y ago
    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 3y ago
      I upvoted for your gracious acceptance.
gtirloni 3y ago
Last successful archive (July 2023): https://web.archive.org/web/20230719194509/http://bash.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230719194509/http://bash.org/
_0xdd 3y ago
Oh man. This would be the perfect site for ProtoWeb to restore.
lazycog512 3y ago
I still wonder if those two ever met up at the beach.
Demiurge 3y ago
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 3y ago
  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 3y ago
    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 3y ago
    A lot of the Discords I've experienced have a dedicated channel for gifs/memes, seems to work quite well.
  - Vorh 3y ago
    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.
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jdlyga 3y ago
The server that runs it probably got updated to Windows 10
that_guy_iain 3y ago
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 3y ago
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.
- deleted 3y ago
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- redcobra762 3y ago
  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 3y ago
    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 3y ago
      Oh yeah because burdening children with the challenges of… using slightly different words… is a real shame.
      - LAC-Tech 3y ago
        Are you saying censorship is fine because people can just use other words? There really is no point engaging with you then.
        sph 3y ago
        It's not censorship, it's new^H^H^Hbetterspeak (tm). A more friendly and inclusive version of the English language.
d0odk 3y ago
Someone remind the admin his password is hunter2
ryandv 3y ago
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 3y ago
  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 3y ago
  IRC was commercialized very successfully. It’s called Slack and Discord.
  - cobertos 3y ago
    Twitch chat also uses IRC
    - mondobe 3y ago
      So does the online multiplayer for Worms: Armageddon, ChanServ and all.
      - puzzlingcaptcha 3y ago
        IIRC the original Battlenet (Starcraft etc) also used it.
        opello 3y ago
        Yes! We had Diablo 2 Battle.net bots that were IRC clients. :) Fond memories.
      - 3y ago
netprole 3y ago
i put on my robe and lower my wizard hat
green-salt 3y ago
Going through it again I now remember how much of my humor is derived from there.
allywilson 3y ago
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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950721 YR Got it, thanks
- Akronymus 3y ago
  > 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 3y ago
RIP BibleBot
jpswade 3y ago
No doubt now archived forever and available in ChatGPT.
riley333 3y ago
But... but... What happens after I put my robe and wizard hat on?!
throwaway_08932 3y ago
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"
- Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
  Once upon a time I eagerly showed a promising newbie the top page, and they said exactly the same thing. Felt bad. > As we all know, the most secure computer is one not connected to the internet. That’s why I recommend Telstra ADSL.
throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
I put on my robe and wizard hat.... for the last time. :'(
phibz 3y ago
RIP #linuxhelp and #linux. Some good times there. Now bash.org is gone its like it never happened.
ajitmanware 3y ago
HET
ajitmanware 3y ago
HATE
thegeekpirate 3y ago
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 3y ago
I put on my robe and wizard hat...
MauranKilom 3y ago
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 3y ago
  I use http://alwayshttp.com http://alwayshttp.com for this.
  - Vicinity9635 3y ago
    [dead]
- Titan2189 3y ago
  https://neverssl.com/ https://neverssl.com/
  - p1mrx 3y ago
    http://http.rip/ http://http.rip/ is better, if you want https to actually fail.
cratermoon 3y ago
^<@< has left the chat.
brlcad 3y ago
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 3y ago
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 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23326177 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 3y ago
sad :( I still prefer IRC over all these other solutions like discord. They just don't feel right.
oakpond 3y ago
No! Bring it back now!!
linsomniac 3y ago
"Danny?!?" "Mom?!?"
rightisleft 3y ago
rightisleft slaps you around with a large trout
linsomniac 3y ago
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/?top https://web.archive.org/web/20230709210553/http://bash.org/?...
forgotmypw17 3y ago
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 https://qdb.us/image.html (original creator of QDB here, before it moved to bash.org)
dmd 3y ago
Mirror from 3 years ago: https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes
MOARDONGZPLZ 3y ago
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 3y ago
I take off my robe and lower my wizard hat in respect
tiziano88 3y ago
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:d5b215dd588bda164aca31a2eb08aab56ac64bc03cef24e3b67e35654316a446 https://static.space/sha2-256:d5b215dd588bda164aca31a2eb08aa...
- loktarogar 3y ago
  Great! Now I just need to memorise the sha2-256 digest of my favourite memes
pests 3y ago
> i just shit on the floor and heard it land but can't find it > uh ?? > dropped shit****
layer8 3y ago
One of the classics: https://web.archive.org/web/20040604194346/http://bash.org/?244321 https://web.archive.org/web/20040604194346/http://bash.org/?...
cyanydeez 3y ago
just crown it with a LLM
QuinnyPig 3y ago
\* ab is away – gone, if anyone talks in the next 25 minutes as me it's bm being an asshole – HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS This was the original prompt injection attack.
costco 3y ago
Wait a couple of weeks and some guy in the middle of nowhere will have mirrored the site with one of those tools that clones a site from web.archive.org and put some ads on it.
vkaku 3y ago
RIP ... So many gems from IRC! I definitely think the siteowners should have an archive copy of it. Just zip the bash.org files and put it on Archive.org or something
tiptup300 3y ago
Just wanted to mention here, this website was a great laugh for me and my friends, but looking back there was a lot of antisemitism up at the top of the list for a long time that me and my friends spewed and laugh about without thinking about it. Honestly I've never heard it mentioned, but it's interesting how those sorts of concepts can be spread in such an innocuous way.
trog 3y ago
I have a couple of quotes in there somehow from the efnet #quake days. Good times. Reading bash.org always made me laugh. Literally was looking it up a couple days ago for the quote about taking the warning labels off everything and noticed it was offline!
zX41ZdbW 3y ago
When I press "up" on the website opened in Firefox, it scrolls up very slowly and with a noticeable jitter. It is nice to see the display model easily rotating in 3D, but the on/off button is not clickable. The logos at the top and on the bottom-left corners are blurred. The font size at the bottom of the page is too small (barely visible).

575 points by Khaine 3y ago

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.

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panzagl 3y ago

If they forgot the root p/w its hunter2

h2odragon 3y ago

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 3y ago
I’d feel kinda sad if bash.org wasn’t using Perl or something.
- toyg 3y ago
  IIRC it smelled of php.
  - diggan 3y ago
    Definitely PHP, I seem to remember it being mentioned in some blog/news post sometime.
- shawabawa3 3y ago
  surely it should have been written in bash
  - pas 3y ago
    of course it should have been ported to BoB (Bash on Balls, the modern portable slick web framework)
    - dymk 3y ago
      And favored framework among the CBT community
      - cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago
        Cognitive behavioural torture.
mrweasel 3y ago
Was the Bash.org code available somewhere? I'd love to have a look at it, just for fun.

frankjr 3y ago

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://web.archive.org/web/20230701000000*/bash.org https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes

toyg 3y ago
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 3y ago
  The Internet only forgets stuff you wish it wouldn’t, and remembers everything you wish it wouldn’t.
- mulmen 3y ago
  > "The internet does not forget" is such a massive lie. This is a warning, not a guarantee.
jwilk 3y ago
What do they mean by "cleaned"?
- kotaKat 3y ago
  "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 3y ago
Ooh, we should make a Fortune database out of them! (Am I the only person still using 'fortune' as their shell motd?)

bayindirh 3y ago

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 3y ago
Almost, the password is ********.
- bayindirh 3y ago
  I can't read it. pfft
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
  - miroljub 3y ago
    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 3y ago
      hunter1
      - markx2 3y ago
        Close. hunter2
        meepmorp 3y ago
        Wait, how did you see my password?

vanjajaja1 3y ago

can't they just put all the quotes on wikipedia or twitter or something

nosrepa 3y ago
It's all on archive.org
- Bitemenow 3y ago
  https://bashforever.com/ https://bashforever.com/
ricardo81 3y ago
far better off as an independent entity beyond those centralised place's ever changing rules.
- hn92726819 3y ago
  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 3y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950912 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)
    - hn92726819 3y ago
      Backed up on centralized gitlab and centralized archive.org, huh? My point is that the comment was praising independent services when it doesn't make sense: bash.org, the independent service, shutting down and people want to store backups in a more trustworthy centralized service, much like the two backups you linked.
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c0l0 3y ago

Someone needs to put on their robe and wizard hat and fix this properly :'(

Havoc 3y ago
I cast a level 99 resurrect spell on the server
belthesar 3y ago
Easy there, bloodninja.
sergiotapia 3y ago
"I pry apart that battleship you call your ass" xD - what a tremendous loss!
shagie 3y ago
... and wand. https://i.imgur.com/SQjQz.png https://i.imgur.com/SQjQz.png

ricardo81 3y ago

>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.

eugenekolo 3y ago

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 3y ago
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 3y ago
  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 3y ago
  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 3y ago
    Non-sysadmin here. For static HTML, why is server patching/OS needed if things are locked down?
    - bayindirh 3y ago
      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 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50383 [1]: https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/2024-January/000156.html https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/20...

BlackJack 3y ago

So sad to hear that. QDB brought me so much joy to read.

dale_glass 3y ago

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 3y ago

Anyone got a screenname for the dev originally behind it?

diggan 3y ago
Maybe this helps? > Managers: Ninety > Moderators: Amanda, vx0, kastein I'm guessing they might be around on Libera or Freenode

LeonM 3y ago

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 3y ago
> 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 3y ago
> I guess that's because IRC has been mostly dead for a while now False
- GaryNumanVevo 3y ago
  I haven't stopped using IRC!
  - LeonM 3y ago
    Hence why I wrote mostly dead.
- Reubachi 3y ago
  you are living in an alternate reality if you don't agree with the fact IRC is mostly dead. no enterprise is using i seriously, chat platforms of course don't use it, and niche/hobbyists have long since moved to discord and reddit. Of course there's holdouts, but I think it's fair to say 90 percent of IRC type chat hosts are dead/gone.

munro 3y ago

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 3y ago
Sorry, I don't get it!
- another-dave 3y ago
  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
- grozmovoi 3y ago
  [flagged]
  - romwell 3y ago
    What does age have to do with it? "Turn that frown upside down" isn't a phrase that would make much sense to people who didn't hear it before. More so if English isn't their first language or they are neurodivergent. I don't believe I have ever heard this phrase used IRL. It's not a very nice thing to say in most contexts (saying this to another adult is outright bad - which is what makes the IRC joke funny in the first place).
    - overgard 3y ago
      He probably just meant that younger people grew up with emoji so they might not be aware of the vast array of text smileys we used to do
    - ddingus 3y ago
      I have heard it a few times. This really depends on what local lexicons you are exposed to.

pmlnr 3y ago

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 https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bash.org/?835030

bayindirh 3y ago
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/?330261 https://web.archive.org/web/20230709002522/http://bash.org/?...
- inversetelecine 3y ago
  I want to believe the "d" in inverted being right next to the "b?" is what set the lights off right away.
sph 3y ago
Also, from memory: <h|tler> HOW CAN YOU TELL IM 13 BY HOW IM WRITEING???????
- jwilk 3y ago
  https://web.archive.org/web/20021129061103/http://www.bash.org/?14207 https://web.archive.org/web/20021129061103/http://www.bash.o...
throwaway_08932 3y ago
CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!!!!!!!!
more_corn 3y ago
I didn’t remember that one. Thanks, I haven’t laughed that hard in a while.

adhesive_wombat 3y ago

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 3y ago
On-point sarcasm. Have an upvote.
halfmatthalfcat 3y ago
Rather they have some bare metal, FTP-ing files directly to prod, right?
- MrDarcy 3y ago
  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 3y ago
    Generally brings them down, too.
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zomg 3y ago

total bummer. i had contributed a bunch of great convos over the years. is there a mirror?

poisonborz 3y ago

There were also national versions, e.g. http://bash.hu 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 3y ago
http://www.ibash.de http://www.ibash.de for Germany :-)
- Sakos 3y ago
  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__ 3y ago
    There was another site, called german-bash.org, but it went down last year :/
- balou23 3y ago
  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 3y ago
    Not quite. The very first German bash.org clone is https://bash.pilgerer.org/ https://bash.pilgerer.org/
kqr 3y ago
https://warpdrive.se/ https://warpdrive.se/ is a Swedish variant.
- diggan 3y ago

6510 3y ago

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 3y ago

The last snapshot in the Wayback Machine seems to be from 19 Jul 2023: http://web.archive.org/web/20230719193319/http://www.bash.org/?top http://web.archive.org/web/20230719193319/http://www.bash.or...

incomingpain 3y ago

Is everyone abandoning bash? Zsh? Fish?

justusthane 3y ago
Wrong bash. Bash.org didn't have anything to do with the shell, it was a database of funny IRC quotes.
- incomingpain 3y ago
  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 3y ago
    I upvoted for your gracious acceptance.

gtirloni 3y ago

Last successful archive (July 2023): https://web.archive.org/web/20230719194509/http://bash.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230719194509/http://bash.org/

_0xdd 3y ago

Oh man. This would be the perfect site for ProtoWeb to restore.

lazycog512 3y ago

I still wonder if those two ever met up at the beach.

Demiurge 3y ago

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 3y ago
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 3y ago
  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 3y ago
  A lot of the Discords I've experienced have a dedicated channel for gifs/memes, seems to work quite well.
- Vorh 3y ago
  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.
3y ago

jdlyga 3y ago

The server that runs it probably got updated to Windows 10

that_guy_iain 3y ago

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 3y ago

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.

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redcobra762 3y ago
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 3y ago
  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 3y ago
    Oh yeah because burdening children with the challenges of… using slightly different words… is a real shame.
    - LAC-Tech 3y ago
      Are you saying censorship is fine because people can just use other words? There really is no point engaging with you then.
      - sph 3y ago
        It's not censorship, it's new^H^H^Hbetterspeak (tm). A more friendly and inclusive version of the English language.

d0odk 3y ago

Someone remind the admin his password is hunter2

ryandv 3y ago

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 3y ago
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 3y ago
IRC was commercialized very successfully. It’s called Slack and Discord.
- cobertos 3y ago
  Twitch chat also uses IRC
  - mondobe 3y ago
    So does the online multiplayer for Worms: Armageddon, ChanServ and all.
    - puzzlingcaptcha 3y ago
      IIRC the original Battlenet (Starcraft etc) also used it.
      - opello 3y ago
        Yes! We had Diablo 2 Battle.net bots that were IRC clients. :) Fond memories.
    - 3y ago

netprole 3y ago

i put on my robe and lower my wizard hat

green-salt 3y ago

Going through it again I now remember how much of my humor is derived from there.

allywilson 3y ago

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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950721 YR Got it, thanks

Akronymus 3y ago
> 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 3y ago

RIP BibleBot

jpswade 3y ago

No doubt now archived forever and available in ChatGPT.

riley333 3y ago

But... but... What happens after I put my robe and wizard hat on?!

throwaway_08932 3y ago

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"

Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
Once upon a time I eagerly showed a promising newbie the top page, and they said exactly the same thing. Felt bad. > As we all know, the most secure computer is one not connected to the internet. That’s why I recommend Telstra ADSL.

throwawaaarrgh 3y ago

I put on my robe and wizard hat.... for the last time. :'(

phibz 3y ago

RIP #linuxhelp and #linux. Some good times there. Now bash.org is gone its like it never happened.

ajitmanware 3y ago

HET

ajitmanware 3y ago

HATE

thegeekpirate 3y ago

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 3y ago

I put on my robe and wizard hat...

MauranKilom 3y ago

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 3y ago
I use http://alwayshttp.com http://alwayshttp.com for this.
- Vicinity9635 3y ago
  [dead]
Titan2189 3y ago
https://neverssl.com/ https://neverssl.com/
- p1mrx 3y ago
  http://http.rip/ http://http.rip/ is better, if you want https to actually fail.

cratermoon 3y ago

^<@< has left the chat.

brlcad 3y ago

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 3y ago

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 3y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23326177 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 3y ago

sad :( I still prefer IRC over all these other solutions like discord. They just don't feel right.

oakpond 3y ago

No! Bring it back now!!

linsomniac 3y ago

"Danny?!?" "Mom?!?"

rightisleft 3y ago

rightisleft slaps you around with a large trout

linsomniac 3y ago

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/?top https://web.archive.org/web/20230709210553/http://bash.org/?...

forgotmypw17 3y ago

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 https://qdb.us/image.html (original creator of QDB here, before it moved to bash.org)

dmd 3y ago

Mirror from 3 years ago: https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes

MOARDONGZPLZ 3y ago

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 3y ago

I take off my robe and lower my wizard hat in respect

tiziano88 3y ago

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:d5b215dd588bda164aca31a2eb08aab56ac64bc03cef24e3b67e35654316a446 https://static.space/sha2-256:d5b215dd588bda164aca31a2eb08aa...

loktarogar 3y ago
Great! Now I just need to memorise the sha2-256 digest of my favourite memes

pests 3y ago

> i just shit on the floor and heard it land but can't find it > uh ?? > dropped shit****

layer8 3y ago

One of the classics: https://web.archive.org/web/20040604194346/http://bash.org/?244321 https://web.archive.org/web/20040604194346/http://bash.org/?...

cyanydeez 3y ago

just crown it with a LLM

QuinnyPig 3y ago

\* ab is away – gone, if anyone talks in the next 25 minutes as me it's bm being an asshole – HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS This was the original prompt injection attack.

costco 3y ago

Wait a couple of weeks and some guy in the middle of nowhere will have mirrored the site with one of those tools that clones a site from web.archive.org and put some ads on it.

vkaku 3y ago

RIP ... So many gems from IRC! I definitely think the siteowners should have an archive copy of it. Just zip the bash.org files and put it on Archive.org or something

tiptup300 3y ago

Just wanted to mention here, this website was a great laugh for me and my friends, but looking back there was a lot of antisemitism up at the top of the list for a long time that me and my friends spewed and laugh about without thinking about it. Honestly I've never heard it mentioned, but it's interesting how those sorts of concepts can be spread in such an innocuous way.

trog 3y ago

I have a couple of quotes in there somehow from the efnet #quake days. Good times. Reading bash.org always made me laugh. Literally was looking it up a couple days ago for the quote about taking the warning labels off everything and noticed it was offline!

zX41ZdbW 3y ago

When I press "up" on the website opened in Firefox, it scrolls up very slowly and with a noticeable jitter. It is nice to see the display model easily rotating in 3D, but the on/off button is not clickable. The logos at the top and on the bottom-left corners are blurred. The font size at the bottom of the page is too small (barely visible).