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

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    11 months ago

    Hmm, it still resolves for me, but nothing ever responds. The domain doesn’t expire for over a year still. Perhaps it’s just a transient issue?

    • Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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      11 months ago

      I read it a lot, but it feels like there hasn’t been new content in years, so I stopped visiting at some point.

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    11 months ago

    Damn, I hope it comes back. Bash was one of the greatest monuments to internet history.

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    11 months ago

    Someone archived all the quotes on the Internet Archive.

    Otherwise we’d need to share all the quotes by mouth around a hobo campfire.
    I’ve read Fahrenheit 451 so i noe.

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      11 months ago

      Wait, how you make that backwards b?

      EDIT: never mind.

      Or whatever it was…been a while.

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    11 months ago

    The internet archive is becoming one of the most valuable sites on the web, specially to avoid paywalled corpo pages.

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      11 months ago

      And people are abusing the fuck out of it by uploading tons of copyrighted movies. No one seems to be policing it either. I’m very worried that its days are numbered.

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        11 months ago

        Imagine how many copyrighted books are in IRL libraries. Now imagine that IRL libraries can copy any book in any amount. Congrats, now you imagined what libraries in Europe can do.

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          11 months ago

          Uhh what? I’m pretty sure libraries in Europe can’t do that. Do you mean they can photocopy any book they own…?

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            11 months ago

            Not sure how exactly it worked, but some time ago in Russia it was completely legal for library to copy book, but it seems now laws became more strict. Probably some member of United Russia got a shiny new yacht.

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              11 months ago

              That might be legal in Russia, but not in EU or elsewhere in Western Europe. My partner works in a library in UK and copyright stuff is a big problem.

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    11 months ago

    As of February first, Usenet is done also. Google will not allow joining or new postings anymore. But they will continue to host it as an archive, until they don’t…

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    11 months ago

    Just going to shamelessly paste this one for the memories

     hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars  
     ********* see!  
     hunter2  
     doesnt look like stars to me  
      *******  
     thats what I see  
     oh, really?  
     Absolutely  
     you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2  
     haha, does that look funny to you?  
     lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******  
     thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that  
     yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******  
     awesome!  
     wait, how do you know my pw?  
     er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw  
     oh, ok.  
    

    E: formatting