#historyofcomputing
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Day-by-day usage
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Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-27 13:34 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~17712 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 06:00
Languages: English (38) · French (2)
Avg boosts / post: 1.3
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
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