Fall 1999. Napster is exploding, Santana’s “Smooth” ft. Rob Thomas is still #1 on the Billboard chart, and young starl3xx is pushing the family’s Compaq Presario to its limit experimenting with pirated 3D rendering software—Bryce 4, among others. Whether by happenstance or providence (starl3xx tends to favor the latter), “Quicksand²” is the only digital artwork of its kind to have been preserved fully intact.