The Archive remained anachronistic and essential, an improbable museum of boot loaders and preferences panes. Visitors sometimes asked whether preserving such things mattered—whether old .iso and .dmg files were not just dead code. Mara would point to the small moments: a desktop.jpg that calmed an anxious student, an installer that allowed an artist to express an idea, a NOTES_FOR_DEVS file that taught empathy across a generation.