#unixhistory
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #unixhistory 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 2026-10-20 11:04 UTCNo measured public usage for #unixhistory in the last 7 days. That is a real result, and a good one to know: this hashtag is wide open right now. We show a dash before we ever show a made-up number. Browse the trending index for tags with live measurements.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-20 11:04 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #unixhistory.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-20 11:04 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 29 public posts (spanning ~69506 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 12:00
Languages: English (24) · French (2) · Chinese (Taiwan) (1) · Zulu (1) · Spanish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.8
Top of the latest posts
We all know about software patches, this is hardware patching. A friend thought I might want these -these are S-Bus adapters from a SUN SparcStation 20. This is what a hardware patch looks like. The hardware was too expensive to replace in
Decided to display the VAX-11/750 at the @revspace open day yesterday. All the hard work repairing it seems to have paid off, managed to get 14 hours of uptime out of it before shutting it down at the end of the day! #unix #retrocomputing #
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#unixhistory across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #unixhistory 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/unixhistory