#historyofcomputing
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #historyofcomputing 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 2026-10-20 10:46 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-20 10:46 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #historyofcomputing.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-20 10:46 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~15646 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 06:00
Languages: English (37) · French (2) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.8
Top of the latest posts
@vivdunstan Yeah! #Hyperland also found it’s way to the Internet Archive >> https://archive.org/details/HyperlandBBSDouglasAdamsAndTomBaker1990 #HistoryOfHypertext #HistoryOfComputing #ComputerHistory
@davefischer Strictly speaking that's a conflation of two distinct strands of history that were a decade and a half apart. AT&T #Unix System 5 Release 3 had the system of subdirectories and scriptlets, developed because /etc/rc had exploded
IMO Aspen Movie Map (1981) has still better concepts than google maps & #streetview today. left video via: https://mprove.de/chrono3d?q=39.19068,-106.81934&z=17.13&r=98&t=69&d=0&s=1&i=1 right: https://www.google.com/maps/place/39%C2%B011'27
#historyofcomputing across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #historyofcomputing 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/historyofcomputing