#retronyms
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #retronyms 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 2026-07-28 08:09 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 2026-07-28 08:09 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #retronyms.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-28 08:09 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 2 public posts (spanning ~9.7 hours).
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Languages: English (2)
Avg boosts / post: 0
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Top of the latest posts
Just saw a Rhode Island Monthly magazine article with a cool, useful new-to-me retronym: “dine-in” As in “Our dine-in menu includes …” or “It’s strictly a dine-in restaurant, so forget it.” Presumably this coinage arises in contradistinctio
@devinsinger You’re absolutely right and I am wrong. [Sobs quietly for a moment] I see (too late) that Merriam-Webster Unabridged makes my shame official by confirming that the phrase’s first known use was in 1964. I’d say I need to get out
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