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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[+] 64 points 2 years ago (3 children)
  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah, seconded. I saw a decent chunk of things in person like I saw on bash.org. People were silly and/or dumb long before friendster, myspace, facebook, etc. and did plenty of shitposting (and just general cringe-y teenage obnoxiousness) on IRC and the like.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Shitposting is a tradition literally as old as the internet

    It's older than that, really, but before message boards it was just pranking, so honestly I'm glad for people to have the emotional outlet this way instead

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There's an actual submission from there written by me (and posted by someone else). I am (very) mildly internet famous, under another handle.

    Can confirm that at least one of them is genuine.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    I have massive logs from IRC in the 20teens. I used IRC loads when the web was new, and revisited it and built a couple of bots in 2015ish, and one of those logged everything as part of a game - it was a spy

    IRC is chat. Chat is sometimes nuts

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