[wrboyce]

It’s relevant enough that I feel I can roll out this bash.org classic…

<Alanna> Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders

EDIT: someone has (much to my joy) made an archive of bash.org so here is a link[1], but I must say I’m quite jealous of today’s potential 1/10,000[2] who will discover bash.org from my comment!

[1] https://bash-org-archive.com/?338364

[2] https://xkcd.com/1053

[anamexis]

Perhaps my biggest claim to fame is being #11 on the bash.org top 100.

[komali2]

Hah, found it: https://bash-org-archive.com/?207373

So how did it work back in the day, people would just submit text and it would get upvoted? I always assumed like half of them were just made up.

[anamexis]

Yep, exactly that. I recall that the voting was interesting because it was just ranked on absolute number of votes, no time decay or anything, so it would take quite some time for a new contender to accumulate votes to "compete" on the leaderboard. I don't remember if there were even accounts or if anyone could just vote repeatedly, modulo some IP or cookie-based limits.

As far provenance, I assume a lot of them were made up too, but this one was real.

[centur]

Not discovered from scratch, but was a big fan when it was alive and kicking. Went there from time to time to get some mood boosters. So was very sad when found that it's gone (original one). Thanks a lot for sharing that bash-org-archive.com exists, what a great fun going down this memory lane.

[wrboyce]

I’ve been browsing the archive since I left that comment, they really were the good old days weren’t they. IRC was my introduction to geekdom, and I don’t think it would be unreasonable to say it shaped my life. Here I am 30-ish years later, an old man yelling at clouds — and I wouldn’t change much!

If anyone ever requested/used an eggdrop(?) bot from #farmbots or #wildbots on quakenet then thanks to you too; that was certainly one of the next steps down the path I took. A (probably very injectable) PHP blog and a bunch of TCL scripts powering bots, man I wish I could review that code now.

[post_below]

As one of the lucky 1/10000, holy shit that was amazing. Thank you.

To everyone else: I acknowlege that this post is not adding value but if you were one of the lucky 1/10000 you would understand that I have no choice.

[yellow_lead]

That's hilarious. My comment is mostly a joke, but also trying to say that "runs everywhere" isn't that impressive anymore.

[throwup238]

Yeah everyone proclaims to IANAL nowadays.

[orliesaurus]

wait - how do you search the quotes??

[mh-]

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Abash-org-archive.com+...

seems to work. relies on that individual quote being indexed, and google SERPs feeling like returning full results at the moment, of course. when the latter fails, I've found success with site: queries on Bing (of all places.)

[wrboyce]

I don’t think there is a search function, I got the exact wording from a web search (I think “bash Java anal”, arguably a dangerous search!) and then after submitting I wondered if there is an archive of the quotes.

[the__alchemist]

I found another appropriate XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1682/

[matt-attack]

I truly don’t understand that one. Might be the first XKCD that has gone over my head.