#softwarehistory
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #softwarehistory from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #softwarehistory
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 · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-02 18:13 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 2026-10-02 18:13 UTCLive pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-02 18:13 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~5615 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 18:00
Languages: English (27) · Spanish (10) · French (1) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 2.4
Top of the latest posts
Perl was weird, messy, brilliant, and absolutely foundational to the early web. Before modern frameworks and JavaScript everywhere, Perl powered CGI scripts, forms, counters, search tools, admin panels, and the kind of text processing that
"fun facts to learn and know" The history of Xerox Mesa The modular programming language you have probably never heard of. Paul has connected all of the dots going back as far as the 1950s https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/me
MS Dinosaurs and Encarta are often fondly remembered, but i personally think that Oceans had some of the best multimedia design. it's very book-like in presentation, with zero scrolling. every page is carefully written to exploit the limite
#softwarehistory across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #softwarehistory 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/softwarehistory