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.
I’m glad it got archived, but if you think those weren’t fake I have a bridge in New York for sale cheap.
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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.
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
It was also stall graffiti
a true art form
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It’s nice here that so many have their proper name. I couldn’t get “psud” on Reddit, I have it on three instances here :)
If there are people here who have known me on any of the old internet they might recognise me
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.
How has fame changed you?
Same here. Even has a quote by a friend that’s passed.
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
Who cares if something is ‘fake’ if you get enjoyment from it? It’s the same as any scripted comedy.