For those that don't get it, I'll explain.

Imagine an alternative world that used 7-bit bytes. In that world, Pavel Panchekha wrote a blog post titled "We'd be Better Off with 8-bit Bytes". It was so popular that most people in that world look up to us, the 8-bit-byters.

So to summarize, people that don't exist* are looking up to us now.

* in our universe at least (see Tegmark's Level III Multiverse): https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html or Wikipedia