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bash.org is gone (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Some were.

You'd be surprised how many were not. I spent an awful lot of time on irc in the 90's...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It was also stall graffiti

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

a true art form

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

How has fame changed you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Same here. Even has a quote by a friend that's passed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I have massive logs from IRC in the 20teens. I used IRC loads when the web was new, and revisited it and built a couple of bots in 2015ish, and one of those logged everything as part of a game - it was a spy

IRC is chat. Chat is sometimes nuts