history, written, verbal, sources, words on paper, bits on disks, stored, in a format that should be future proofed, windows of time, windows, sliding scales, reference windows, selections in history, a peek into the past, the way things used to be, the ways things used to be observed, thought of, historical reference frames, to put oneself in a previous position, without the future baggage, or the wisdom of experience, but the wide eyes, googly eyes, naive and indestructible glasses, goggles, viewport, of using all of the history and experience, up to that point, to make any decisions, as factors, as sources for the bibliography, but now knowing they were always right, the older, the more experienced, the wisdom knows.