#firstvideogame
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #firstvideogame 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 2026-08-02 09:45 UTC0 uses by 0 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 2026-08-02 09:45 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #firstvideogame.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-08-02 09:45 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 2 public posts (spanning ~0 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (2)
Avg boosts / post: 1.5
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Top of the latest posts
There are hundreds of documented instances of chess being played over the telegraph, with the first instance occurring in 1845. By most definitions this would not by itself be a "digital game", but how many more steps are necessary to becom
If you're looking for the holder of title for "the first video game", it's possible you may be looking in the wrong place. Before modern computers, the technological foundations of modern communication were built on the telegraph. It was, i
#firstvideogame across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #firstvideogame 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/firstvideogame