So after viewing
s u r f a c e in multiple browsers, installing shockwave player, and attempting to open the .dcr files that were mysteriously downloaded straight to my drive, I think it comes down to the fact that these files are not only old, outdated, and no longer supported, but that they're also corrupted. Viewing the files directly through photoshop comes up with an error, and all other software tells me that the files are corrupted. When using Internet Explorer (with shockwave player installed) to actually view the exhibit in browser, I get errors saying that the "director movies" won't load. Also when viewing the console of the exhibit through inspect element, there are several .swf flash files that are just not loading, because they are trying to be accessed from parts of the
http://0100101110101101.org/ website that are no longer available and bring up an error when accessed.
So while I believe there are still quite a few things that I haven't even seen this website throw at me yet (AQfumes is right, it's rarely the same place twice) the chances of finding it are a lot slimmer than they were before.
I'm curious though, what if someone tried accessing
s u r f a c e on a 1999 era PC? Old hardware, possible better .dcr support that new machines don't even want to try and attempt opening? I guess it's possible that the files aren't corrupted, my PC and laptop just want nothing to do with such an old format.
But other than that and searching more, I'm out of ideas for now.