Going Walkabout in Cyberspace (1993), made by Alister Ferguson with Philip Thomson and Catherine Cheng, dives into Australia’s fledgling online communities at a time when home internet was far from universal. This clip offers an early, wonderfully clunky glimpse of virtual reality.

Michael Ney, founder of Virtual Realm Xchange, dons a pair of green‑screened glasses and floats through a series of digital worlds. 'Wow, it’s pretty freaky in here,' he declares – 'here' being a surreal beach scene complete with a pixelated cow.

It’s an irresistibly retro snapshot of the moment Australians first began imagining what life in cyberspace could be.