#earlyweb
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #earlyweb from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #earlyweb
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-02 08:24 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-10-02 08:24 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-02 08:24 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 37 public posts (spanning ~61011 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 19:00
Languages: English (35) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 5.1
Top of the latest posts
The early web was driven by curiosity, openness, and play, not monetization. Creativity flourished because experimentation was encouraged. Creator Audrey Witters reflects on that era, using her now-famous animated alien GIF as an example of
"At the beginning of 1995, the internet was still largely the domain of academic-minded geeks and Silicon Valley hippies. But the culture at large was increasingly taking notice of cyberspace. Throughout 1995, millions more people went onli
Younger folks might not remember this, but in the late 90s, pretty much all social media platforms abandoned XHTML because HTML5 doesn't require you to close your hash tags <#EarlyWeb />
#earlyweb across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #earlyweb 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/earlyweb