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.
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
thats okay, someone will have put all the information on an impossible to search for or browse discord server, that’ll surely last forever. /s
Join the crowd on tik tok I guess
Ok, I will need that off-grid cabin in the woods after all…
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.
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.
Uhh what? I’m pretty sure libraries in Europe can’t do that. Do you mean they can photocopy any book they own…?
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.
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.
And he donned his robe and wizard hat for the last time :'(
doffs robe and wizard hat solemnly
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.d-_-b
Oh man, I forgot how much I used to read bash.
Gosh, me too! Honestly for a good decade there I think Reddit was the only URL I knew.
I read it a lot, but it feels like there hasn’t been new content in years, so I stopped visiting at some point.
Qdb.us has gone about two years ago as well. None of these had remained?
Yeah, I noticed a couple months ago :(
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.
Wow, an end of an era.
Removed by mod
Damn, I hope it comes back. Bash was one of the greatest monuments to internet history.
Great quote I just found.
gross
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
General tip:
https://web.archive.org/save/<url goes here>(includinghttp://) to save a page. We used to be able to spam save, but they’ve implemented some throttling there, so you can’t save the entirety of your personal website all at once, but oh well.RIP bash, hope they come back
Real question: is there any good archive of amazing internet convos from modern systems that replaces it?
