#computerhistory
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #computerhistory from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-16 18:58 UTC19 uses by 17 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-16 18:58 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-16 18:58 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~297 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 19:00
Languages: English (32) · Ukrainian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.3
Top of the latest posts
The #KWIC source code has many instances of this pattern: BAKUP LDQ WORD&*/2-BAKUP/2,4 This is #IBM 704 #SAP #assembly language. The original is fixed width fields, but hopefully it's still readable. I believe the '&' is a '+' (possibly eve
It looks like #KWIC was a big deal at the time: "the greatest thing to happen in chemistry since the invention of the test tube." There's a nice article about it here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/hans-peter-luhn-and-the-birth-of-the-hashing-a
This is fun - if you look at this #IBM program catalog from 1962, https://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/pgmCatalog/C20-8090_Catalog_of_Programs_for_IBM_Data_Processing_Systems_KWIC_Index_Apr62.pdf you'll see that it has something called a #KWIC (Ke
#computerhistory across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #computerhistory straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/computerhistory