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It was a collection of silly quotes from IRC channels everywhere, many of which dated back to the 90s. It was rarely ever updated in the 2010s, but now, the URL no longer resolves.

Last capture was July 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230601000000*/bash.org

EDIT Someone archived all the quotes on the Internet Archive.

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[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 204 points 10 months ago

IRC was so much better than Discord. People are stupid.

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 109 points 10 months ago

Relevant xkcd

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[-] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 67 points 10 months ago

I've lost a lot of my rose tint for discord, right around the arbitration clause thing, but I can't deny that it's convenient. Chat, streaming to friends, popping up a new server for whatever project or group, VC for playing games together. There's platforms that do all of these things better, but few that do all of them decently well.

Of course, it's a privacy nightmare and I stick to IRC for anything I wouldn't feel comfortable having linked to my identity, but I wouldn't call people stupid for using it.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 64 points 10 months ago

Mostly I think its fine for all that.

But there's a special circle of hell for projects that rely on it for "documentation".

I get the temptation, I really do. But once you're taking money or have more than a couple people involved and semi-organized you really need at least a small wiki/git-hub landing page with the basics.

I know documentation is a separate skillset and a lot of work in its own right but projects can also stagnate and die because there isn't any.

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[-] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 38 points 10 months ago

IRC is only text chat, Discord does a ton of other things on top.

Personally I've been on the internet for the last.. 27 years or so? I've used ICQ, Teamspeak, Skype, IRC, Mumble, Discord, Teams, .. (Probably forgot a few).

I never really liked IRC, yes, it's private servers which is nice, yes you can be relatively anonymous, but the channels were always a mess. Either too many people spamming so you can't follow a single conversation, or for most channels you had 40 people idling and never responding, so it felt like a ghost town.

Just in my personal experience Discord works a lot better and is far more convenient. But yeah, not much privacy there obviously (though everything you said in IRC was often saved away by a bot, so either way whatever you said was out there).

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

CashewNut slaps Vlyn around a bit with a large trout

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 24 points 10 months ago

Sure, but when everybody's Discord content vanishes behind a paywall, or makes you watch a 2 minute advert to see a Wiki, what are you going to do?

Already I can't just browse the content on a Discord community without "joining" and all that bollocks.

Like I'm sure Discord is better than IRC, but it's not better than a collection of open standards so anyone can run a server.

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[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 37 points 10 months ago

It's wild how a good deal of decentralization and FOSS focused communities insist on having Discord be their primary center for community. Worst one is privacy focused communities...

I can't say that bridging them to matrix was a foolproof endeavor though

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 30 points 10 months ago

Amen. Guess it's the curse of the unknowing youth. They grow up with this bullcrap. I hate discord so much. "oh buy nitro, have stupid stickers!" ugh.

I really really really miss IRC. What was wrong with it? Why did it die? Did we all die?

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[-] wahming@monyet.cc 22 points 10 months ago

Except the lack of a decent mobile client that doesn't require you to self-host something to receive all messages

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[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 188 points 10 months ago

My password is finally secure!

[-] vacuumfountain@startrek.website 59 points 10 months ago

You can type it here and be completely safe! It hides it from us!

[-] Potatisen@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Wait, let me try *******

Does it work?

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

hunter2 is not a secure password.

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

Yeah, composing your password of all asterisks is probably not good.

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[-] Lydia_K@startrek.website 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Wow! That's amazing, let me try ************* Did that show up for you?

[-] sdoorex@slrpnk.net 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

1LikeChix&Dix

It did. Not a bad password but pretty easy to guess.

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[-] vrek@programming.dev 35 points 10 months ago

But what should I do with this robe and wizard hat?

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

What the f*ck, I told you not to message me again.

[-] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 19 points 10 months ago

It would have been awesome Easter egg to code in Lemmy that hunter2 would been always changed to stars.

The confusion it would have caused would have been legendary

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[-] CosmicApe@kbin.social 125 points 10 months ago

And he donned his robe and wizard hat for the last time :'(

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

doffs robe and wizard hat solemnly

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[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 88 points 10 months ago

It vanished 7 years ago and came back. It's possible they forgot to renew.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 57 points 10 months ago

First week of the new year. This seems likely.

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[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

Registry Expiry Date: 2025-03-08T05:00:00Z

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

They went down in August too. Maybe they just need better help keeping things running

[-] reflex@kbin.social 60 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Someone archived all the quotes on the Internet Archive.

Phew. Otherwise we'd need to share all the quotes by mouth around a hobo campfire.
I've read Fahrenheit 451 so i noe.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago

I guess he'll never put on his robe and wizard hat nor cast level 3 eroticism ever again.

not gonna lie, I am like..genuinely kinda misty eyed over the end of the era.

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[-] Veedem@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago

Man, first time I went through the top posts, I was in tears.

[-] Drusas@kbin.social 46 points 10 months ago

Oh man, I forgot how much I used to read bash.

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[-] Chozo@kbin.social 34 points 10 months ago

Damn, I hope it comes back. Bash was one of the greatest monuments to internet history.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

I'm glad it got archived, but if you think those weren't fake I have a bridge in New York for sale cheap.

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[-] Exec@pawb.social 30 points 10 months ago

Qdb.us has gone about two years ago as well. None of these had remained?

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

d-_-b

[-] Raptor_007@lemmy.world 77 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Wait, how you make that backwards b?

EDIT: never mind.

Or whatever it was...been a while.

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 10 months ago

I was about to laugh at you but then I got the reference.

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[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 27 points 10 months ago

As of February first, Usenet is done also. Google will not allow joining or new postings anymore. But they will continue to host it as an archive, until they don't....

[-] bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.world 55 points 10 months ago

Usenet isn't a centralized thing though.... This is just Google groups stopping Usenet support. Plenty of newsgroup providers.

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[-] ZOSTED@sh.itjust.works 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just going to shamelessly paste this one for the memories

&lt; Cthon98 > hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars  
&lt; Cthon98 > ********* see!  
&lt; AzureDiamond > hunter2  
&lt; AzureDiamond > doesnt look like stars to me  
&lt; Cthon98 > &lt; AzureDiamond > *******  
&lt; Cthon98 > thats what I see  
&lt; AzureDiamond > oh, really?  
&lt; Cthon98 > Absolutely  
&lt; AzureDiamond > you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2  
&lt; AzureDiamond > haha, does that look funny to you?  
&lt; Cthon98 > lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******  
&lt; AzureDiamond > thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that  
&lt; Cthon98 > yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******  
&lt; AzureDiamond > awesome!  
&lt; AzureDiamond > wait, how do you know my pw?  
&lt; Cthon98 > er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw  
&lt; AzureDiamond > oh, ok.

E: formatting EE: formatting EEE: more formatting??? EEEE: omg I don't know how to fix this anyway you get the idea

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[-] gianmarco@feddit.it 22 points 10 months ago

Great quote I just found.

gross

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[-] 4am@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago

RIP bash, hope they come back

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Now I'll never know how to make that inverted d

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