Eryn Wells
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---
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title: "Netscape Meteors: Retrospective"
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date: 2023-08-05T17:14:40-07:00
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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.
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categories: ["Tech"]
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tags:
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- History
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- Meta
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- Netscape
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- Web
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- Web Browsers
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---
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Last week, I published a small blog post about trying to find the original
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[Netscape "meteors"][meteors] loading animation. At some point that night,
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someone posted it on the orange website, and ... it did some numbers.
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As of today, five days later, my server has registered just over 200,000 page
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accesses.
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{{< figures/code >}}
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```txt
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% grep "GET /blog/2023/08/netscape-meteors/" \
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/var/log/nginx/access.log | wc -l
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200201
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```
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{{< /figures/code >}}
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Bandwidth saw a bit of a spike too.
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{{< figures/image name=bandwidth-2023-08-05.png shouldShowTitle=false >}}
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To my knowledge this is the first time anything I've published on the internet
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has been picked up by Hacker News. It's jarring to realize so many people have
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visited my website in the last several days, reading this and other things I've
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written, listening to music I've published, and looking through photos I've
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posted. It's a little like having surprise house guests and realizing you
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haven't tidied up in a little while.
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I only took a brief look at the comments. I was pleased to see they were civil,
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and mostly reminiscing about the days of Netscape and the early web. I had a few
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people reach out to tell me they enjoyed my post too.
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Thanks, y'all, for reading my little corner of the web, and for your kind
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words.
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[meteors]: {{< ref "blog/2023/netscape-meteors" >}}
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