Preserving the Creative Legacy of the Early Internet
Flash Not Dead searches and brings together lost pieces of a digital decade once full of creativity and boldness. Join us on a journey through forgotten Flash websites and the creative spirit of Y2K.
Watch the storyThe Work of Bringing Flash Back
The 2000s produced some of the most influential digital experiences in history, many now surviving only as screenshots and fragments.
Flash Not Dead preserves the defining works of the Flash era through faithful video reconstructions, ensuring their cultural legacy endures.
Explore ArchiveThe Work of Bringing Flash Back
The 2000s produced some of the most influential digital experiences in history, many now surviving only as screenshots and fragments.
Flash Not Dead preserves the defining works of the Flash era through faithful video reconstructions, ensuring their cultural legacy endures.
Explore ArchiveLatest Recoveries
The newest additions to the archive. Lost Flash projects recently recovered, restored, and brought back to light.
Flash Archaeology
Projects pieced together from scattered SWFs, old JPG captures, and fragments found across the web.
Most Legendary Findings
The biggest finds in the archive. Iconic Flash projects of the 2000s, back from oblivion.
2Advanced: Retrospective
The work of 2Advanced, the most influential Flash design studio of the 2000s. Recovered and preserved piece by piece.
Flash Intros We Miss
Skip intro? Never. A tribute to the loading screens and cinematic openings that made every visit an event.
Inside my Flash Vault
Iconic Flash websites that survived only on backup CDs. You won't find these on the Wayback Machine. They exist nowhere else but here.
Made by the Curator
The curator's own work from the Flash years. Projects designed and built during the 2000s.
The Story Behind
Flash Not Dead
At the beginning of my career as a Flash designer, I downloaded websites to study them or revisit them offline. Over the years, those files quietly grew into a time capsule of digital creativity.
Flash Not Dead goes beyond the SWF files I kept on backup CDs, bringing together recovered projects and iconic work from studios and designers globally, preserving and celebrating one of the most innovative decades in the history of the web.
Let's Connect on LinkedInFlash Not Dead goes beyond the SWF files I kept on backup CDs, bringing together recovered projects and iconic work from studios and designers globally, preserving and celebrating one of the most innovative decades in the history of the web.
Help Preserve
the Flash Era
Do you still have old Flash backups containing SWFs, source files, or complete websites?
Dust them off and email them to me.
Every recovered file helps preserve a piece of web history. Whether you created them, worked on them, or simply saved them years ago, I'd love to preserve their story and share it with the community.
Send Your Flash FilesDust them off and email them to me.
Every recovered file helps preserve a piece of web history. Whether you created them, worked on them, or simply saved them years ago, I'd love to preserve their story and share it with the community.
