#sketchpad
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #sketchpad from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #sketchpad
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-22 00:28 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-22 00:28 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-22 00:28 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~10884 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 16:00
Languages: English (14) · Russian (1) · Chinese (Taiwan) (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.5
Top of the latest posts
Everyone’s seen the Sketchpad demo. Few understand how it actually works. I reimplemented Sketchpad from scratch, and I’m making short videos that recreate Sutherland’s demos and explain how they work. The first 8 are up — from drawing a li
#doodle #research #penandink #pensketch #aztec #sketchpad #sketchbook #blackandwhite
spent the better part of a week in upstate ny. i somehow was able to keep the schedule light and crank out more scenes. #urbansketching #inkwash #sketchpad
What “sketchpad” means
Wiktionary · WikipediaSketchpad is a computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988, and the Kyoto Prize in 2012. It pioneered human–computer interaction (HCI), and is considered the ancestor of modern computer-aided design (CAD) programs and as a major breakthrough in the development of computer graphics in general. For example, Sketchpad inspired the graphical user interface (GUI) and object-oriented programming. Using the program,
“Sketchpad” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#sketchpad across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #sketchpad 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/sketchpad