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How to be a Retronaut

If the past is a foreign country, this is your passport

Anachronisms
- Future in the past
  - Atomic Age Hollywood
  - Hi kids, here's a story about civil defence
  - Nuclear Toys
  - Spacelander Electric Bicycle, 1946
  - The Dazzle-Ships of WWI
  - Visions from Popular Science
- Past in the present
  - "Cloud of Unknowing" - Gorillaz
  - "The Swing" (1767) Jean-Honoré Fragonard
  - Biblical scenes in Google Earth
  - Classic photographs in Lego
  - Facebook updates for historic events
    - Facebook updates for historic events (Part 1)
  - Franz Xaver Messerschmidt sculptures, 1700s
  - Man removing his shirt in Piero della Francesca "The Baptism Of Christ" (1450)
  - USB Typewriters
  - Woman in a chicken suit, 1910
  - WWII Paper Planes
- Present in the past
  - Apple Mac in Mad Men
  - Contemporary ruins
    - Ghost Station Tube Maps
    - Ukrainian Airfield
  - Contempory Memento Mori
    - Aged Barbie
    - Aged Superheroes
    - And Vinyly
    - Bugs Bunny's skeleton
    - Tweety-pie's skeleton
  - Darth Vader painted by Monet, 1875
  - Dubai through an 1857 lens
  - Hollywood Premakes
  - iPad in 2001: A Space Odyssey
  - iPods in 1977
  - Ming Dynasty beer-cans
  - Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
  - Star Wars for Retronauts
  - Steampunk
    - Steampunk laptop
    - Steampunk Stormtrooper
  - Superheroes in history
  - The Georgian iMax
  - Victorian Star Wars
  - “Modern Renaissance” & “Celebrity Time-Travel”
- Time-crashes
  - Dali and Disney's "Destino"
  - The Soviet Hobbit
  - Tudor Pinhole Camera
  - Victorian Delorean
  - We Are All Animals
Change
- Extreme change
  - Earl's Court Farm, 1867
  - Heathrow Airport, 1935
  - The Brixton Zebra
  - The Collapsing Wall, 1940s / 2010
- Gradual change
  - "Stour Valley and Dedham Village" (1815/2010), John Constable
  - Anna and Richard Wagner, 1900-1945
  - Chiswick High Road, 1982 / 2003
  - The "Ziggy Stardust" phone-box, 1972-2009
Early technology
- Colour film
  - Colour footage of Venice 1912
- Film
  - Alice in Wonderland, 1903
  - Amateur
  - Archive
  - Bloopers
  - Chronochrome
  - Feature
  - Kodachrome Motion
- Firsts
  - 15 World's Firsts
  - The "first photograph" of New York
  - The first fake photographs
  - The first photograph of a human
- High Resolution
  - London, 1940s, in hi-res colour
  - London, 1950s, in hi-res colour
  - New York, 1940s, in hi-res colour
- Music video
  - Soundies
  - The first music video, 1895
- Photography
  - Aerial
    - Aerial panorama of San Francisco in ruins
  - Colour
    - Brighton beach, Saturday, June 16th, 1906
    - Fleet Street, London, 1:55pm on a sunny Sunday afternoon in 1924
    - Imperial Russia, 1909-1915
    - New York City, 1941
    - Panoramic Tokyo, 1865
    - Soho, 1959
    - WWII WASPs
  - Nelson's Column under construction
- Recorded sound
  - "There'll Come A Time" - Arthur Pryor, 1897
- Snap-shot photography
  - Girl on a tricycle, Ireland, 1900
- Stereo photography
  - 3D Ancient Japan
Immediacy
- Bablake School, Coventry, 1955-57, by Alan Hails
- Carnaby Street, 1968
- Chicago Night Clubs, 1970s, by Michael Abramson
- Greetings from 1950s Wales
- Paris, 1910-1914, by Eugene Atget
- Photobooth animations
- Portraits, F. Holland Day
- Smiling
  - Smiles of old Japan
  - Smiling Victorians
- Square Dance, Oklahoma, 1940
- USSR, 1953
Multiple Time
- Ambiguous Time
  - The Retronaut's Daughter
  - What year is this?
    - What year is this? #1
- The Ghosts of…
  - Amsterdam
  - Cherbourg
  - Leningrad
  - Macclesfield
  - the Blitz
  - Toronto
  - World War II
- The Kodak building
Replicas
- Brand-new 18th Century Shirts
- Brand-new medieval castle
- Brand-new medieval humours
- Brand-new Smalltown, USA
- Brand-new WWII
Time-travel culture
- "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells
  - "The Time Machine" Comic
  - "The Time-Machine" in Lego
- Back to the Future iPhone App
- Dr Evermore & the Forevertron
- Echo Park Time-travel Mart
  - 10 Time-travel Mart products
  - 5 Time-travel tourism ads
- Hang this up in your time-machine
- Map of time-travel in popular film and TV
- Mark Wallinger's TARDIS
- Present - Michæl Paukner
- Time-machine guitar effect pedal
Uncategorized
- Geography
  - Location
Unusual duration
- Contracted time
  - 100 years of Hovis
  - Four sisters, 25 years
  - Rush hour, Waterloo Station, 1970
  - The longest time-lapse video
  - Time-lapse from space
- Exceptional survival
  - Hatch the Tudor Dog
  - Ice-Age flute
  - Lennon and McCartney: the last known photograph
  - London's oldest statue
  - Mozart's skull
  - Notting Hill Gate Tube posters c. 1956-1959
  - The Cabinet of Sarah Hare
  - The Roman road-map
- Expanded time
  - 27-year-old picnic
  - Crayola Colour Chart, 1903-2010
  - One family, 30 years