t’s the question on everyone’s lips: How old would Henry VIII be, were he alive today?
Happily, I was able to provide an answer to this age-old conundrum with one of my very first stupid Twitter accounts, @HowOldIsHenry.
Powered by a bot, How Old Is Henry would tweet automatically once every twenty-four hours to remind followers how old our most infamous monarch would be, were he still with us.
Sadly, a few months ago, the account had to stop tweeting.
The online service I was using to host the bot decided to withdraw its free pricing tier. As much as I loved watching people celebrate Henry’s advancing years, it wasn’t really worth paying £7.99 a month for.
For now, I’m keeping the feed online as a permanent record of the account’s sheer stupidity.
And you never know, there might be a way of bringing Henry back at some point in the future.