Things From the Past ✓

@pastarchive · joined 30 Aug 2014

history • archaeology • fashion • art • music

22 882Followers

645Following

1 554Posts total

4.1KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views797this account2 751median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.48%this account9.00%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %3.16%this account1.65%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	797	2 751	0.29×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.48%	9.00%	0.39×
Engagement rate	3.16%	1.65%	1.92×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

79226 Aug

79727 Aug

823

78328 Aug

9461 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.27%26 Aug

3.51%27 Aug

3.16%

2.30%28 Aug

3.91%1 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.65%.

What the audience does

Likes68.3%97 in total

Reposts17.6%25 in total

Replies3.5%5 in total

Bookmarks10.6%15 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

This is how some women went swimming in the 1890s. These wheeled changing cabins were called bathing machines. Women could change inside while the cabin was rolled or pulled into the water, then step directly into the sea with greater privacy from people on the beach. Bathing h 946 views · 30 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 Electric taxis aren’t nearly as new as they seem. In 1897, Walter Bersey’s battery-powered cabs began carrying passengers through London. The service launched with 12 electric taxis, capable of around 9–12 mph (14–19 km/h). The experiment lasted only about two years, undone by 783 views · 13 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 28 Aug 2026 243 years ago today, the world’s first hydrogen balloon landed outside Paris — and terrified villagers attacked it. On August 27, 1783, the unmanned balloon launched from Paris and drifted about 13 miles (21 km) before landing near Gonesse, France. Locals, unfamiliar with the ht 823 views · 20 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies 27 Aug 2026 Cat content was already a thing in 1914. Photographer Harry Whittier Frees used miniature costumes and props to stage scenes with kittens. His animal photographs appeared on postcards and in children’s books, long before anyone could share them online. Photos: Harry Whittier ht 797 views · 21 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026 In southwestern France, mail was once delivered on stilts. Rural postmen in the Landes region followed a method long used by local shepherds, walking on wooden stilts to cross marshy ground and reach scattered communities. The practice continued into the early 20th century. htt 792 views · 13 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 26 Aug 2026