This postrecords some of the technical discussions between the GLA and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) arising from ONS work on [Regional Creative Industry] statistics. They are of historical interest because they document the difficulties we all encountered in adapting the available statistics, based on classifications originating in the Victorian era, for use in the Internet Age. These discussions were a forerunner of the Bakhshi-Freeman-Higgs collaboration around the ‘Dynamic Mapping’ of the creative industries, leading to the adoption of a UK standard by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)