#papertape
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #papertape 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 · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-17 00:43 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-17 00:43 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-17 00:43 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~56395 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 16:00
Languages: English (30) · Spanish (3) · American English (1) · British English (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1
Top of the latest posts
Here is what my tiny BASIC interpreter would write to a five-channel paper tape. There are no characters like < = > or even + or * in the CCITT-2 encoding, so they are replaced with two-character keywords or alternative characters. For exam
I have a BAI Data Products model 1230 paper tape punch/reader that is in need of restoration. I also have a PDP 11/05 that I've recently got working, which needs some input/output. I'd like to make the two talk. I can't find any documentati
Look at this 45-year-old bodge inside the tape punch. I’m glad I’m not the only one that mixes up TX and RX on my serial implementations :) #retrocomputing #bodge #papertape #pdp11
What “papertape” means
WikipediaPunched tape or perforated paper tape is a form of data storage that consists of a long strip of paper through which small holes are punched. It was developed from and was subsequently used alongside punched cards, the difference being that the tape is continuous.
“Punched tape” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#papertape across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #papertape 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/papertape