ray723•1mo ago

Found a 1997 web page that still has its original hit counter at 1,024

I was digging through old GeoCities archives and clicked on a fan site for the band Garbage. At the bottom, there was one of those old visitor counters, the kind with little numbers. It was frozen at 1,024 hits. It just hit me that someone made this page, watched that number tick up for a while, and then the internet just moved on and left it there. The page itself is a perfect snapshot too, with tiny animated GIFs and a bright purple background. It's wild to see a number that small, knowing some sites now get that many visitors in a second. What's the oldest hit counter number you've ever seen still ticking?

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davis.victor1mo ago

Wasn't 1,024 a common default starting number for those counters?

sandraf841mo ago

Yeah, the 1024 thing. I remember reading that it was a power of two thing from old systems. Makes sense for those counters.