Bash.org is back (opens in new tab)

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.

Bloodninja: http://bash.org/?search=bloodninja&sort=0&show=25

rap: http://bash.org/?870063

"Hey, you know what just isn't cool?"

"lava?"

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 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

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.

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 :)

See also 4chan. Pervasively offensive and frequently hateful, yet also the source of impressive content, touching moments, activism, and miscellaneous awesomeness.

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.

Try 'traceroute -m 255 obiwan.scrye.net'

By suggestion of your command

Rss started working again for me a couple days ago. Guess I never bothered taking it off.

> While it could use a technology update, the content is still quite humorous.

Why? I love the fact that there is at least one site out there that remembers that plain-text web pages can run just fine if all you're doing is delivering plain text. (Hacker News is another nice, nearly-plain-text example.) What purpose would be served by a technology update?