A while ago I write a post about the difficulties of archiving online work from the 1990s and 2000s. I’d more or less resigned myself to the fact that much of my work would never be preserved. Indeed I thought it interesting that digital art might erode and disappear over time.

But the archive team at the British Film Institute (bfi) had other ideas and has been busy creating an online collection of seminal works from those early days of British digital innovation.

I’m happy to say that a walkthrough video for XPT’s Online Caroline has been added to this collection (alongside other prestigious web oldies like Badgers!)

Archiving Caroline in its original form was never going to be possible, but this walkthrough at least communicates what the project was like. And it’s nice to see this work sitting alongside such cultural gems as ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ and the Nick Clegg Apology Song.

Thanks have to go to the BFI Screen Heritage Fund and National Lottery funding for helping this substantial archiving project to happen.