#mainframes
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #mainframes 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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-20 15:08 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-20 15:08 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-20 15:08 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~12932 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (37) · Portuguese (2) · Russian (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.8
Top of the latest posts
This place cray! #INITHELLO #SystemSource #AppleII #Apple2Forever #vintageApple #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #mainframes #cray #MD #museum
the saga of moving the #univac 418 continues... #retrocomputing #mainframemonday #retrocomputer #mainframes #forklift #museum #computers #computing #technology #tech
Good times today at the con! #INITHELLO #AppleII #Apple2Forever #vintageApple #SystemSource #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #mainframes #cray #MD #museum
What “mainframes” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediamainframes
- nounA large, powerful computer able to manage very many simultaneous tasks and communicate with very many connected terminals; used by large, complex organizations (such as banks and supermarkets) where continuously sustained operation is vital
A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe, maxicomputer, or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing. A mainframe computer is large but not as large as a supercomputer and has more processing power than some other classes of computers, such as minicomputers, workstations, and personal
“Mainframe computer” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#mainframes across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #mainframes 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/mainframes