Good 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…
Bash.org is back
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#12did they remove rss though?
Rss started working again for me a couple days ago. Guess I never bothered taking it off.
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#13I love their variety of slightly racist humor!
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#14It's interesting how many of the things make me think, "This is awesome!" (like the "boolean awesomeness" one that JoshTriplett linked), and yet so many also are such examples of hatefulness (e.g., top ones) and the kind of things that I would not want anyone to read.
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#15I'm feeling a bit ignorant - could someone give a bit of background about bash.org and its history?
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#16I'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 the ones they thought were funny. If they were actually funny they would get upvoted.
About two years ago the site simply stopped updating with new quotes. People like me, who had incorporated bash.org into their "I have 30 seconds to kill, type random urls into my browser and hit enter" process still visited pretty regularly in desperate hope to see a new quote.
Finally a few days ago, after years of silence, a new one appeared.
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#17This deserves way more than 70 points in 2 hours. If bash.org isn't up HN's alley I don't know what is!
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#18Good 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…
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#19Good 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…
rap: http://bash.org/?870063
dont mind me while i emerge my ownage
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#20Good 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?