Last week, the British Film Institute’s National Archive announced a new collection of some 430 online videos. The collection encompasses a whole spectrum of British-made viral video content, from cultural phenomena like Radiohead’s “Scotch Mist” online performance of In Rainbows and Liz Truss’s doomed battle with a head of lettuce to memes like dancing badgers and the immortal “Charlie Bit My Finger” clip. The collection sits in the wider context of the BFI National Archive’s remit to preserve the moving image; as the Archive’s Digital Curator Will Swinburne explains, the collection is “an attempt to capture what the world of the online moving image has brought to the wider story of filmmaking.” A selection of pieces from the very British collection is available on the BFI’s Replay site. (If you’re outside the UK, you’ll need a VPN to access it.) Gizmodo spoke to Swinburne about Shockwave Flash, blackout curtains, and what to do if the world ends. Gizmodo: If you’re trying to pull together an archive of internet videos, you have a pretty much infinite number of pieces from which you could choose. What sort of criteria do you use to determine whether something is culturally significant, or more generally, just something you want to include?