(Actually, a lot of it surprises me.)
49: I have ported XScreenSaver to the iPhone. (from 2012!)
46: Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day (from 2008!)
44: engineering pornography (from 2002!!)
42: Tentacle heart (from 2014!)
41: WordPress migration mostly complete (from 2010! So obsolete!)
40: The Gentleman's Guide to Amputation. (from 2011!)
32: Why I use Safari instead of Firefox (from 2012!)
23: export TERM=aaa-60 (from 2016!)
20: I, for one, welcome our new 21-amino-acid worm overlords. and their friends the gasoline-shitting bacteria. (from 2011!)
19: Every day I learn something new... and stupid. (from 2010!)
15: Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh (from 2013!)
9: Poetica Vaginal (from 2010!)
2: Watch a VC use my name to sell a con. (from 2011!)
Ranked by page loads? Number of reposts?
What if we control for number of times the page appeared as a "previously"?
By hits on the HTML page.
Please do share with us what your further research reveals.
Someone (who is not me) ought to do some clustering on the previouslies and tags. That would reveal "shadow profiles" of tags that do not exist but should.
That They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo doesn't rank as the unqualified winner is further evidence that internet is constructed of philistines all the way down.
I mean, there are a couple other strong contenders, but for it to not even be in the top 3 is criminal.
Agreed. That post is an epic piece of original work.
Also (at least for 2018) you need to control for people (like me) who are checking these links out from this post. And yes, the internet is weird.
Of all the articles posted here, I imagine this would be the one for which the updates would be longer than the original... and it's only been up 10 months.