#ithistory
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #ithistory from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #ithistory
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 · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-30 01:53 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 2026-09-30 01:53 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #ithistory.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-30 01:53 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 25 public posts (spanning ~33908 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 10:00
Languages: English (19) · German (3) · Russian (1) · Ukrainian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.4
Top of the latest posts
pretty cool video of person cleaning then booting old PDP-11 with VT320 slow scroll. I only had VT100 at UQ Computer Science Huts using PDP-11 KA and KL in 1980s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAG5wVJjANM #pdp11 #ithistory #retrocomputing
The software was correct. The input was correct. The CPU instruction gave the wrong answer. Texas, 1978. An IBM 3031 running an early online cotton auction system refused to come back properly after an upgrade. Robert Garrett started single
https://defrag98.com/ The defrag98.com page contains a fully running, browser simulator of the classic Windows 98 Disk Defragmentator, and thus the playback of one of Microsoft's system tools. The product that the website "simulates" is Win
#ithistory across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #ithistory 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/ithistory