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Can you connect to it with a regular client?
You could back in the early days (I did it), not sure today.
can't they just put all the quotes on wikipedia or twitter or something
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Almost, the password is ********.
I love each and every one of you who have posted into this subtree, although it's bittersweet if bash.org really is going away… https://archive.is/0y1yT is the archive of http://www.bash.org/?244321
What do we do?
Sigh
I put on my robe and wizard hat
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can't they just put all the quotes on wikipedia or twitter or something
Wikipedia isn't an appropriate place for Bash quotes because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia about broad concepts. Also, Wikipedia as a policy is not a primary source. 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.)
[1] And even if submitting required licensing the contribution under some Wikimedia-friendly license, considering each person included in a quote would also have to agree to such a license... and I have a feeling bloodninja wasn't following up their conversations with "would you mind sending me a signed release of the above six (6) messages under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license version 3.0?"
What a shame. IRC is one of the few protocols left of the early Internet that hasn't been aggressively commercialized and colonized by corporate interests, and this is just another nail in the coffin. Often times I wonder why basically _everything_ must be on the Web, and if all that historical baggage and complexity is really necessary, or even worth it at all.
> Often times I wonder why basically _everything_ must be on the Web Because for the great majority of users, i.e. those who thought that "the internet" lived inside the blue "e" icon for IE on Win XP, or those who "break their cup holders" [1] they have great difficulty handling the fact that they need to launch different apps on their computer for different purposes and so everything has coalesced around "web based…
Because it seems wildly hyperbolic. We're not in the year 1995 anymore.
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
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.