On: Tell HN: Bash.org is no more

[frankjr]

Huh, it really looks like it's not coming back this time. It has been offline for ~6 months. At least most of the quotes are backed up.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230701000000*/bash.org

https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes

[frankjr → frankjr]

I've created https://randombash.cf42.workers.dev/ which serves random quotes from the linked dataset.

[toyg → frankjr]

Would make for a nice webservice, like those Pokemon/StarWars/etc apis.

Ironically, those quotes will likely survive a lot of more modern content. Even viral stuff, these days, will disappear incredibly quickly - bat an eyelid and the imgur link is broken, the twitter post is paywalled, the reddit thread is taken down... And any private service like Discord or Slack will happily burn everything after a few months.

"The internet does not forget" is such a massive lie.

[bombcar → toyg]

The Internet only forgets stuff you wish it wouldn’t, and remembers everything you wish it wouldn’t.

[mulmen → toyg]

> "The internet does not forget" is such a massive lie.

This is a warning, not a guarantee.

[0xbadcafebee → frankjr]

Ooh, we should make a Fortune database out of them! (Am I the only person still using 'fortune' as their shell motd?)

[jwilk → frankjr]

What do they mean by "cleaned"?

[kotaKat → jwilk]

"The numbers missing from the sequence correspond to the quotes that are either still pending review or have been rejected. However, my dataset is by no means considered to be proven complete."