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Obscuritory

obscuritory.com · a site they built themselves

Read them at obscuritory.com → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

Obscuritory publishes essays about games and technology at obscuritory.com, a site they built themselves. Last published September 2025. Vouched for by 2 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

935 pages in their archive17 dated posts since 20102 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per year

3201042015720172201912024

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 16

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 16, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
13 captured, of 935 the sitemap lists
Front page
96 KB, 15 scripts, 43 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 10 entries, the recent end only
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
5 other writers in the index, 173 other sites, 10 platforms
Found
2026-08-22, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

game964salvador20phil45history1172clockwiser1myst11preservation47video841puzzle162amiga11rebellion61foundation263maxis2tone153

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.

Who vouches2 writers in the index

2 writers in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

Their neighbourhood

The Digital AntiquGardenWayback MachineEm ReedThe Digital AntiquMacintosh Reposito183 sites outside the indexObscuritory
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Wayback Machine, Em Reed, The Digital Antiquarian, Macintosh Repository, Vintage Computing.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · essays, stories, or poems · vouched by 2 other writers

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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