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Hunter2 refers to a password an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) user by the name of AzureDiamond was tricked into revealing. It is often used as a fake password or username, both by various users and in comics or other media.

Origin

In 2004, a portion of an IRC log was submitted to Bash, a website which records humorous or odd IM or IRC conversations.[1] In it, a user by the name of AzureDiamond was tricked into giving away his password, which was hunter2.[2] The exact date of upload is unknown, but the first recorded date in the Wayback Machine was June 4th, 2004.[3]

A copy of the original bash.org chat transcript:


<Cthon98> hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
<Cthon98> ********* see!
<AzureDiamond> hunter2
<AzureDiamond> doesnt look like stars to me
<Cthon98> <AzureDiamond> *******
<Cthon98> thats what I see
<AzureDiamond> oh, really?
<Cthon98> Absolutely
<AzureDiamond> you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
<AzureDiamond> haha, does that look funny to you?
<Cthon98> lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
<Cthon98> yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> awesome!
<AzureDiamond> wait, how do you know my pw?
<Cthon98> er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
<AzureDiamond> oh, ok.

Spread

By September 2005, over a year after the quote was submitted to Bash, it began to gain attention.[4] The earliest known reference in that time-frame was from the Flashback Forum, where user Nattskenet posted it (shown below).[5] However, the earliest known reference outside of Bash.org itself is on b92[6] on June 21st, 2004 by user Larko. From there it can be found on several other sites, such as an early reference on mamamusings[7] on April 12th, 2005, and another early reference in the time-frame it became popular, where it was contained in a list of quotes from Bash.[8] It is still used today, with multiple usages found within the last three years, on websites such as 4chan,[9][10] Reddit,[11] and MetaFilter.[12]


On July 23rd, 2020, Urban Dictionary [13]user FuckYou92728919388482 defined "hunter2" as "An old meme about a user on a chatroom who was tricked into revealing his password. It is not currently known what happened to the user who went by the name 'AzureDiamond.'"


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External References

[1] Urban Dictionary – UD Definition for bash.org / Top post submitted November 11th, 2003

[2] Bash.org on the Wayback Machine – Quote 244321 / Saved June 4th, 2004

[3] Wayback Machine – Results for http://bash.org/?244321

[4] Google Trends – "Trend line for hunter2

[5] Flashback Forum – Earliest known reference in the time-frame it was popular / Posted September 2005

[6] b92 – Earliest reference outside of Bash / Posted July 21st, 2004

[7] mamamusings – Earliest known reference outside of Bash.org / Posted April 12th, 2005

[8] Favorite quotes from Bash – Early reference in the time-frame it become popular

[9] /mu/ – A recent reference on 4chan / Posted April 15th, 2015

[10] /f/ – Another recent reference on 4chan / Posted October 7th, 2014

[11] Reddit – A question about hunter2 on r/OutOfTheLoop / Posted March 18th, 2016

[12] MetaFilter – A reference in the title / Posted August 7th, 2013

[13] Urban Dictionary – hunter2



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