Bash.org is back

by slifty • 12 years ago

160 45 12 years ago

Hawkee• 12 years ago

It's been years since I've visited this site. While it could use a technology update, the content is still quite humorous.

JadeNB• 12 years ago

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?

drinchev• 12 years ago

That's really cool. A dozen of my bookmarks don't return 404 anymore.

koichirose• 12 years ago

did they remove rss though?

infogulch• 12 years ago

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

steanne• 12 years ago

path please? i cannae find it.

nvk• 12 years ago

Add a Bitcoin Donation link like https://coinkite.com/u/OpenBazaar/

_72xq• 12 years ago

The very first page on it and I get this random gem: (do a ) tracert -h 100 216.81.59.173 ; after the 10th hop or so, watch for an imperial star destroyer.

gizmo686• 12 years ago

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

By suggestion of your command

BuildTheRobots• 12 years ago

`tracert -h 255 obiwan.scrye.net` for you windows bunnies out there

JoshTriplett3• 12 years ago

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.org/?10958

signa11• 12 years ago

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

peterwwillis2• 12 years ago

  <djahandarie> dont mind me while i emerge my ownage

haha, emerge. remember when Gentoo was a thing?

aw3c2• 12 years ago

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

angersock• 12 years ago

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?

saalweachter• 12 years ago

The old internet is still there, you just stopped visiting.

Here, have a random MUD: http://www.mudconnect.com/cgi-bin/mud_random.cgi

bowlofpetunias• 12 years ago

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.

joeyyang• 12 years ago

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

"lava?"

math0ne• 12 years ago

I love their variety of slightly racist humor!

gknoy• 12 years ago

It'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.

JoshTriplett3• 12 years ago

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

csennn• 12 years ago

human nature in a nutshell

AliAdams2• 12 years ago

I'm feeling a bit ignorant - could someone give a bit of background about bash.org and its history?

slifty5• 12 years ago

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.

AliAdams2• 12 years ago

Exactly what I was looking for - thanks slifty!

mpyne2• 12 years ago

This deserves way more than 70 points in 2 hours. If bash.org isn't up HN's alley I don't know what is!

0xbadcafebee• 12 years ago

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

mpyne2• 12 years ago

There's a fair amount of IRC channels which are nice (and where that's enforced). IRC is a technology, not an ideology, just like the WWW that underpins HN.

slifty5• 12 years ago

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 :)

login1• 12 years ago

your lack of humour is unfortunate.

slifty5• 12 years ago

Sorry guys, forgot that offering opinions that say something isn't really treating women properly is a akin four letter word on hacker news!

Anyway, my point was that the most recent bash contribution (currently voted -40) doesn't represent what bash has to offer, but that newbies shouldn't be turned off by it.

tinco• 12 years ago

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.

snogglethorpe• 12 years ago

IRC's only used for open source communication

I know non-open-source companies (of various sizes/ages) that use IRC for internal dev communication...

What's the alternative to IRC, with similar characteristics?

Doches• 12 years ago

Now that we've got Bash.org back, what will it take to get Randall Munroe to restart LimericksDB?

realusername• 12 years ago

For 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.

sktrdie• 12 years ago

This one is my personal favorite: http://bash.org/?104052

  <NES> lol
  <NES> I download something from Napster
  <NES> And the same guy I downloaded it from starts 
        downloading it from me when I'm done
  <NES> I message him and say "What are you doing? 
        I just got that from you"
  <NES> "getting my song back fucker"

webnrrd2k• 12 years ago

Next up: Robot Wisdom.

DCoder• 12 years ago

Bash.org is back

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