In the end, the chronicle is less about software and more about a posture toward media: a refusal to let something go unread or unseen simply because the dominant formats moved on. It is about hands-on care, about the peculiar joy of coaxing a capricious machine into agreeing to show you a scene. It is about memory enacted as a technological practice — patient, detailed, slightly eccentric — and the small communities that gather around the chores of rescue.