We all have run across link rot, you know, that sudden panic when something you used to count on is no longer there at the end of a trusty purple link? Like forgotten memories of our past, as the web gets older, the synapses that link to dusty old internet memes is passing into an offline past.

I recently went looking for an old .swf file that I used to show my son when he was a baby. The animation below is over 10 years old so that dates him but back in the day, this 4mb file enjoyed millions of views. I almost didn’t find the file so I took the time to download it so that I could archive it on my public Dropbox account for others to enjoy.

Giant Steps by Michal Levy

If you want to read more about this visualization and how it was made, there is an interview with Michal who built this for her BFA degree, “I worked on this film from morning to night, doing only this, for 4 months,” says Levy. Yes, times have changed since 2001.

For a more recent work, see her latest work, One from 2010 as well as a recent video interview with her at the DLD conference in Tel Aviv.