Phil Salvador is a librarian and digital archivist who serves as Visual Media Collections Coordinator at the American University Library. He is the author of The Obscuritory, a blog about lesser-known computer games and software. His most recent major self-publication traces the history of SimRefinery (1992), a simulation game produced for the Chevron Corporation by the developers of SimCity. His ongoing research involves the production history and cultural reception of multimedia CD-ROMs in the 1990s.