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My Life 100 Years Ago

mylife100yearsago.com · a site they built themselves · publishing since 2018

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My Life 100 Years Ago publishes essays, poems and short stories at mylife100yearsago.com, a site they built themselves. Last published July 2026, still publishing this year. Publishing since 2018, by their own archive. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

171 pages in their archive8 years at it43 dated posts since 2018unfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksJanuary 2019 to July 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20192019-05: 12019-10: 12019-11: 32019-12: 120202020-01: 12020-02: 12020-07: 12020-11: 12020-12: 120212021-11: 220222022-02: 12022-04: 12022-12: 120232023-01: 12023-02: 22023-05: 12023-08: 12023-11: 22023-12: 120242024-01: 12024-08: 12024-12: 120252025-01: 12025-02: 12025-07: 22025-09: 120262026-01: 12026-07: 1
fewermorepeak: 3 in November 2019

Counted from links on their own pages whose paths carry a year and a month. That reaches only the pages the crawl has seen, so early years may be undercounted.

Posts per year

6201952020220213202282023320245202522026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 8

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 8, from their own archive. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured, of 171 the sitemap lists
Front page
504 KB, 33 scripts, 186 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 10 entries, the recent end only
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
2 other writers in the index, 34 other sites, 4 platforms
Found
2026-08-22, from ooh-arts

The lag

2018writing since2020archived2026the almanac

Writing since 2018. The Internet Archive first captured the site in 2020. The big engines have never ranked it. The almanac found it in August 2026.

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

mcgeehan1children818illustration287annie82bookman2sesquicentennial3milne14magazine755carroll44holiday412yorker61roundup104erté1dalphin1

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Their neighbourhood

Frank HudsonStuck in a Book38 sites outside the indexMy Life 100 Years Ago
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Frank Hudson, Stuck in a Book.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · publishing since 2018

How the machine sees this site

  • Not in the top million domains. No big engine has ranked it for anything.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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