Bash.org (...archive)
To my dismay, I learned today that bash.org went down some time ago (2023). For those who don't know what bash.org is, or was I guess, it's a collection of chat snippets from IRC channels. Sort of a "best of" of the earlier days of IRC. Fortunately, a few archivists preserved the collection, and this is one of those archives. The best are pretty good, the worst are... pretty bad. Lots of racism. There are a lot of entries, some of which are still quoted around the internet today, and they represent a crowd-curated snapshot of what the internet was like around the turn of the century.
A selection of notable pieces in the collection (that is, I just went through and picked some I remember from the days of yore):
hunter2
types of people
lost machine
helping a newbie
inverted b
experiencing nature
neighborhood bonfire
advanced robotics
business acumen
essence of IRC
top minds of IRC
Did you know that the Internet's Annointed Meme-Singer was also Hella Based? Well you surely knew this if you listened to his greatest hit carefully.
Sixteen Tons Tay Zonday sings Merle Travis / Tennessee Ernie Ford! Sixteen Tons Lyrics: Some people say a man is made outta mudA poor man's made outta muscle...
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Random ancient image. Anyone have any context?
EDIT , footnote : I dug through my memes folder and decided to repost some shit.
Look at me. I am Stamets now.
Memes from my dad's stash #1
So I found out my dad has a massive stash of old saved memes. I asked him to share it with me, I'll be posting some.
