---
title: "Netscape Meteors: Retrospective"
date: 2023-08-05T17:14:40-07:00
description: Someone shared my Netscape Meteors post on the Orange Website, causing it to be moderately viral for a few days. Here’s an update on the web traffic my server received.
categories: ["Tech"]
tags:
  - History
  - Meta
  - Netscape
  - Web
  - Web Browsers
---

Last week, I published a small blog post about trying to find the original
[Netscape "meteors"][meteors] loading animation. At some point that night,
someone posted it on the orange website, and ... it did some numbers.

As of today, five days later, my server has registered just over 200,000 page
accesses.

{{< figures/code >}}
```txt
% grep "GET /blog/2023/08/netscape-meteors/" \
    /var/log/nginx/access.log | wc -l
  200201
```
{{< /figures/code >}}

Bandwidth saw a bit of a spike too.

{{< figures/image name=bandwidth-2023-08-05.png shouldShowTitle=false >}}

To my knowledge this is the first time anything I've published on the internet
has been picked up by Hacker News. It's jarring to realize so many people have
visited my website in the last several days, reading this and other things I've
written, listening to music I've published, and looking through photos I've
posted. It's a little like having surprise house guests and realizing you
haven't tidied up in a little while.

I only took a brief look at the comments. I was pleased to see they were civil,
and mostly reminiscing about the days of Netscape and the early web. I had a few
people reach out to tell me they enjoyed my post too.

Thanks, y'all, for reading my little corner of the web, and for your kind
words.

[meteors]: {{< ref "blog/2023/netscape-meteors" >}}
