Now that we've got Bash.org back, what will it take to get Randall Munroe to restart LimericksDB?
Bash.org is back
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Re: Bash.org is back
#22This deserves way more than 70 points in 2 hours. If bash.org isn't up HN's alley I don't know what is!
The main rule on HN is you have to be nice, and the main rule on IRC is exactly the opposite, so I don't see it getting many upvotes here
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
rap: http://bash.org/?870063
dont mind me while i emerge my ownage haha, emerge. remember when Gentoo was a thing?
"its -O3 the letter, not -03 the number"
http://web.archive.org/web/20060513022941/http://www.funroll...
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#24For french speakers who might not know, there is also the french equivalent of bash.org previously called bash-fr (now renamed to danstonchat) http://danstonchat.com/, it also has a quite large community.
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#25I'm feeling a bit ignorant - could someone give a bit of background about bash.org and its history?
Long ago in the dark days of the internet, before Facebook and social networks, and Reddit, everyone communicated using a group chat service called IRC. On IRC people often said very funny things! Bash.org is a collection of user contributed quotes from IRC conversations. When you would see someone say something funny on IRC, you would instantly load up bash.org and submit your quote. Moderators would then approve th…
Exactly what I was looking for - thanks slifty!
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#26Good time to revisit some of the classics that have propagated into general geek culture: The origin of "hunter2" as a password: http://bash.org/?244321 Sysadmin problems: http://bash.org/?5273 (Ever had a server accidentally walled up into an inaccessible space, but it kept working?) "The keys are like right next to each other": http://bash.org/?5300 IRC pong: http://bash.org/?9322 Boolean awesomeness: http://bash.o…
Man, remember back when the web had stuff that was just... you know...fun? Not monetized, not ad-driven, not commercialized, not social--just people dicking around and having a good time?
The old internet is still there, you just stopped visiting.
Here, have a random MUD: http://www.mudconnect.com/cgi-bin/mud_random.cgi
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#27Good time to revisit some of the classics that have propagated into general geek culture: The origin of "hunter2" as a password: http://bash.org/?244321 Sysadmin problems: http://bash.org/?5273 (Ever had a server accidentally walled up into an inaccessible space, but it kept working?) "The keys are like right next to each other": http://bash.org/?5300 IRC pong: http://bash.org/?9322 Boolean awesomeness: http://bash.o…
I've had that sysadmin problem.
Somewhere in the two six-storey buildings of a tv broadcaster. Additional fun: the system was running spam-filtering software that relayed all incoming mail and was failing. Still ping-able though. And since nobody had any passwords, I needed physical access to get in.
Finally found the likely suspect in a small, locked 19" cabinet. No keys... Only time I needed a hammer and a screwdriver to restart a daemon.
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#28This deserves way more than 70 points in 2 hours. If bash.org isn't up HN's alley I don't know what is!
The current "most recent" quote is pretty unfortunate; not only is it sexist, but also a pun! DOUBLE WHAMMY.
But I would implore folks to look past that type of thing (by voting it down) and find true gems :)
Re: Bash.org is back
#29Good time to revisit some of the classics that have propagated into general geek culture: The origin of "hunter2" as a password: http://bash.org/?244321 Sysadmin problems: http://bash.org/?5273 (Ever had a server accidentally walled up into an inaccessible space, but it kept working?) "The keys are like right next to each other": http://bash.org/?5300 IRC pong: http://bash.org/?9322 Boolean awesomeness: http://bash.o…
"Hey, you know what just isn't cool?"
"lava?"
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#30This deserves way more than 70 points in 2 hours. If bash.org isn't up HN's alley I don't know what is!
Bash.org has been up and down quite a few times for the past few years, there's only one real reason that it's interesting and that's for it sentimental value. Who ever browses bash.org for new content anymore? IRC's only used for open source communication and general knowledge channels nowadays anyway, not much fun going on still.
Unless general IRC channels and networks experience a revival there won't ever be a better source for IRC quotes than the internet archive's mirror of bash.org.