Bundle Old enough to reissue themselves Five makers who went back into their own back catalogue, not somebody else's.

Bundle The face outlived the machine behind it You know the face; nothing you remember is still behind it.

Bundle A permanent address for the temporary Somebody decided these deserved to still be findable next year.

Bundle Somebody went through all of it Each of these took reading the whole pile — and the whole pile is the point.

Bundle Filed before anyone knew the ending Documents written before the outcome was known, which is what makes them worth reading now.

Bundle The original code, still running Not remakes — the actual old code, made to run on the machine you already own.

Bundle Nobody in costume Five places a few miles from Colonial Williamsburg, none of which asks you to imagine anything.

Bundle It nearly didn't survive Four things that came very close to being gone, and are not.

Bundle Somebody did the whole category Five projects where a representative sample was never going to be enough.

Bundle All of it, indexed and given away Collections that were built to be handed over whole, from a card cabinet in Mons to 840,000 free downloads.

Bundle The decision was to leave it alone A film set, a Roman temple, a 1757 house and a car on an island — all still there because nobody removed them.

Bundle Built where it had no business being Four things that turned up somewhere nobody had put one before.

Bundle Somebody counted all of them Nobody commissioned any of these counts; somebody just finished them.

Bundle Go for the one strange fact Not a view, not an atmosphere — in each case one specific fact you can check.

Bundle The thing is gone; the shape stayed Each of these is the negative space where something used to be.

Bundle What survived was never the plan Each of these reached us by an accident nobody intended, and is better for it.

Bundle Press play and stay a while Four things to open when you have the time to watch rather than click.

Bundle Saved by somebody's stubbornness Each of these survives because one person or one town declined to let it go.

Bundle Somebody put the whole of it online Six people who each decided one whole subject belonged online, browsable in full.

Bundle Buildings that outlived their first purpose Four buildings that lost their original job and found a stranger one.