Bash.org was a cornerstone of the old internet. It was a collection of silly quotes from IRC channels everywhere, many of which dated back to the 90s. And now it is no more.
Tell HN: Bash.org is no more
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#2Thanks to the folk who put it together and ran it nearly 20 years. I wonder how much the whole thing cost?
Kind of thing that gets put together as a "hey this is cool" project, it runs and people use it, so we'll just leave it up... months later its more popular, the original authors of the system moved on, but no one can just pull the plug now. this is a public resource, so we'll just keep feeding it.
Years later, someone may go through and fix the design problems; or not. It might be no one figured out how to resolve the dependency on PHP2 or Python1 the original code may have had.
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#3Huh, it really looks like it's not coming back this time. It has been offline for ~6 months. At least most of the quotes are backed up.
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#4It was down for a couple of months already. However, the IP and server seems to be there. Maybe the person who keeps that up will restart the daemons when they remember they operate one of the nostalgia cornerstones of better part of the internet.
Maybe the server's password is hunter2. Let's see whether can I access it.
Edit: Nope. Seems firewalled.
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#5It was down for a couple of months already. However, the IP and server seems to be there. Maybe the person who keeps that up will restart the daemons when they remember they operate one of the nostalgia cornerstones of better part of the internet. Maybe the server's password is hunter2. Let's see whether can I access it. Edit: Nope. Seems firewalled.
Almost, the password is ********.
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#6It was down for a couple of months already. However, the IP and server seems to be there. Maybe the person who keeps that up will restart the daemons when they remember they operate one of the nostalgia cornerstones of better part of the internet. Maybe the server's password is hunter2. Let's see whether can I access it. Edit: Nope. Seems firewalled.
Almost, the password is ********.
I can't read it. pfft
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#7Someone needs to put on their robe and wizard hat and fix this properly :'(
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#8>old internet
Reminds me of Gigablast disappearing, a search engine that was in the spotlight in the early 00's, a sole developer competing amongst AlltheWeb and Google.
When their site disappeared there was barely a mention.
I guess since the mass of geocities was uprooted it's become the norm, the churn of the web and generally accepted. archive.org is great, but it does seem strange how transient information has become on the web. HN and archive.org have good memories.
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#9can't they just put all the quotes on wikipedia or twitter or something
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#10Thanks to the folk who put it together and ran it nearly 20 years. I wonder how much the whole thing cost? Kind of thing that gets put together as a "hey this is cool" project, it runs and people use it, so we'll just leave it up... months later its more popular, the original authors of the system moved on, but no one can just pull the plug now. this is a public resource , so we'll just keep feeding it. Years later,…
I’d feel kinda sad if bash.org wasn’t using Perl or something.