It was a collection of silly quotes from IRC channels everywhere, many of which dated back to the 90s. It was rarely ever updated in the 2010s, but now, the URL no longer resolves.
Last capture was July 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230601000000*/bash.org
EDIT Someone archived all the quotes on the Internet Archive.
My password is finally secure!
You can type it here and be completely safe! It hides it from us!
Wait, let me try *******
Does it work?
hunter2 is not a secure password.
Yeah, composing your password of all asterisks is probably not good.
I compliment you for your knowledge 😊
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Wow! That’s amazing, let me try ************* Did that show up for you?
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It did. Not a bad password but pretty easy to guess.
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But what should I do with this robe and wizard hat?
What the f*ck, I told you not to message me again.
It would have been awesome Easter egg to code in Lemmy that hunter2 would been always changed to stars.
The confusion it would have caused would have been legendary
But ******* is already stars. I don’t see the point.
I miss word filters. How else would we have come up with such greats as weeaboo instead of wapanese?
The internet archive is becoming one of the most valuable sites on the web, specially to avoid paywalled corpo pages.
What will we do when the internet archive goes down
There’s the Internet archive archive. It’s being funded by all the excess donations that archive.org themselves can’t find a way to spend.
So when the internet archive archive goes down, we’ll have the internet archive archive archive as a backup? Neat.
Join the crowd on tik tok I guess
Ok, I will need that off-grid cabin in the woods after all…
It vanished 7 years ago and came back. It’s possible they forgot to renew.
First week of the new year. This seems likely.
Probably is exactly what happened here. The FreeCAD wiki went down on the 1st too, thankfully they have it mirrored to a GitHub repo so that ended up not being a major issue
Oh shit… be right back.
Someone archived all the quotes on the Internet Archive.
Phew. Otherwise we’d need to share all the quotes by mouth around a hobo campfire.
I’ve read Fahrenheit 451 so i noe.Oh man, I forgot how much I used to read bash.
We used to read it as kids when we went over our internet quota for the week and it was the only thing that still loaded
How old were you then? What was your internet quota? It’s so interesting to hear how different age groups or demographics interacted with the same content.
For me in the mid 2000s we had satellite internet and I think the daily quota was like 200mb.
I remember around the same time we had a 300 MB monthly quota on dialup. It made me very wary of what I did online and how large different kinda of media is.
Things changed a bit after we got a 4(?)GB monthly quota over 3G a few years later.
A teenager, so early to mid 2000s. I can’t remember what the quota was other than a couple of dodgy limewire albums and computer aids. And dad getting pissed when we pretty much bricked his computer
Gosh, me too! Honestly for a good decade there I think Reddit was the only URL I knew.
d-_-b
Wait, how you make that backwards b?
EDIT: never mind.
Or whatever it was…been a while.
I was about to laugh at you but then I got the reference.
I like you
God damn I need another coffee this morning because I thought about that for a couple of seconds too many. Haha
Damn, I hope it comes back. Bash was one of the greatest monuments to internet history.
Man, first time I went through the top posts, I was in tears.
And he donned his robe and wizard hat for the last time :'(
Oh that! Lol.
Qdb.us has gone about two years ago as well. None of these had remained?
Just going to shamelessly paste this one for the memories
< Cthon98 > hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars < Cthon98 > ********* see! < AzureDiamond > hunter2 < AzureDiamond > doesnt look like stars to me < Cthon98 > < AzureDiamond > ******* < Cthon98 > thats what I see < AzureDiamond > oh, really? < Cthon98 > Absolutely < AzureDiamond > you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2 < AzureDiamond > haha, does that look funny to you? < Cthon98 > lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as ******* < AzureDiamond > thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that < Cthon98 > yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as ******* < AzureDiamond > awesome! < AzureDiamond > wait, how do you know my pw? < Cthon98 > er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw < AzureDiamond > oh, ok.E: formatting EE: formatting EEE: more formatting??? EEEE: omg I don’t know how to fix this anyway you get the idea
We hunter2’ed for years, man, years.
I’m glad it got archived, but if you think those weren’t fake I have a bridge in New York for sale cheap.
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Yeah, seconded. I saw a decent chunk of things in person like I saw on bash.org. People were silly and/or dumb long before friendster, myspace, facebook, etc. and did plenty of shitposting (and just general cringe-y teenage obnoxiousness) on IRC and the like.
Shitposting is a tradition literally as old as the internet
It’s older than that, really, but before message boards it was just pranking, so honestly I’m glad for people to have the emotional outlet this way instead
It was also stall graffiti
a true art form
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There’s an actual submission from there written by me (and posted by someone else). I am (very) mildly internet famous, under another handle.
Can confirm that at least one of them is genuine.
Who cares if something is ‘fake’ if you get enjoyment from it? It’s the same as any scripted comedy.
Great quote I just found.
gross
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Yeah, I noticed a couple months ago :(
RIP bash, hope they come back
