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bash.org is gone (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by hal_5700X@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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[-] CurbsTickle@lemmy.world 64 points 11 months ago

Some were.

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

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 28 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] skulblaka@startrek.website 17 points 11 months ago

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

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago
[-] MariaRomanov@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

a true art form

[-] CurbsTickle@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

I downloaded the archive to do a bit of searching for old friends actually.

Hilariously I ran across one here on lemmy I haven't seen in... 20ish years? On or offline.

[-] psud@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

It's nice here that so many have their proper name. I couldn't get "psud" on Reddit, I have it on three instances here :)

If there are people here who have known me on any of the old internet they might recognise me

[-] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Chobbes@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

How has fame changed you?

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] psud@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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

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