What this is

Help Me Retro searches 11,411 pages from 55 small, independent sites that big search engines tend to bury. Nothing here is a paid placement.

What gets in

• The site is about vintage computers or classic tech: it names at least two old platforms or chips, or one plus plenty of hobby talk.
• Shops and sales pages are left out. Forums, wikis, blogs, museums, archives and personal pages are in.
• A page is indexed if it has real text (120+ words) about a platform, or is a substantial page on a strongly retro site.
• Pages are tagged by platform when the title names it or the text mentions it more than once.

How sites are found

A crawler starts from hand-picked sites and blog directories, then follows the links those sites make to each other: blogrolls, link pages, webrings. Every site is checked against the rules above before any page is indexed.

For site owners

The crawler is NicheSearchBot. It honours robots.txt and its Crawl-delay, fetches one page at a time with a pause between, and re-checks about once a month. To keep your site out:

User-agent: NicheSearchBot
Disallow: /

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Know a site that belongs here? It will be checked against the rules on the next crawl.

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