[Post] Netscape Meteors: Retrospective

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+title: "Netscape Meteors: Retrospective"
+date: 2023-08-05T17:14:40-07:00
+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" >}}