#unixshells
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #unixshells 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.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-12 07:11 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-12 07:11 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #unixshells.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-12 07:11 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 39 public posts (spanning ~30968 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 08:00
Languages: English (39)
Avg boosts / post: 0.5
Top of the latest posts
I just read about MUSH (Microsoft User Shell) – which is the keyboard-based pre-pulldown menu system that existed in Multiplan, Word or XTree – and early drafts of Microsoft Interface Manager, an text UI precursor of Windows which resembled
@nafmo Going by the commentary in the code, the #BusyBox Almquist shell forked from the Xu #Debian #AlmquistShell in 2005. It has been significantly refactored. So they were well out of step even by 2017. I can confirm that BusyBox 1.37.0 s
@cks People who learned from #Unix folklore tend to get what a shell is wrong, because despite popularizing this particular take on the nut metaphor, influential Unix people early on tended to define 'shell' too narrowly, restricting it to
#unixshells across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #unixshells 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/unixshells