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There were also national versions, e.g. http://bash.hu is still online. Would love to have a collection, there is far too little sociological/folklore research about the net.
http://www.ibash.de for Germany :-)
can't they just put all the quotes on wikipedia or twitter or something
Wikiquotes could be appropriate. Submitting a dump of the entire database to Archive.org could be appropriate. (For example, Archive.org hosts user-submitted dumps of things like product manuals, old TV shows, old computer games.)
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I guess you're right. My HN password is *****. When I edit, I can see it, but when I save the comment, it becomes starred. It even randomizes the length every time I save. Brilliant!
But this also means that they know your plaintext password, meaning that they're saving passwords in plaintext. Given that this is mostly a technical community, it's much more the risk of keeping a database of plaintext passwords than the benefit of being able to obfuscate passwords in comments. EDIT: thanks to another commenter, I understood that what's happening in the above comments is just a meme and HN isn't sto…
HN does not actually know your password or hide it in comments.
My all time favourite: HI EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!! try pressing the the Caps Lock key O THANKS!!! ITS SO MUCH EASIER TO WRITE NOW!!!!!!! fuck me https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bash.org/?835030
HOW CAN YOU TELL IM 13 BY HOW IM WRITEING???????
Zsh?
Fish?
There were also national versions, e.g. http://bash.hu is still online. Would love to have a collection, there is far too little sociological/folklore research about the net.
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One of the most famous quotes was about a server that is online and pings, but the sysadmin doesn't know anymore where it physically is.
Ah, I probably missed it because we had the following dialogue at the office . Hey bayindirh, is the log server up? *SSHs to server* Yes, it's up and running nicely. Where's that thing in the system room? *Scratches head* Umm, I don't know? Go find it, we'll upgrade it to newer HW. Uh, OK. *leaves desk to dig the system room*. P.S.: I'm the one who installed that server physically and configured it in the first place…
It 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 ********.