Lazarus Archive · LZ-00782

DriftSnap

Drift Media, 1993–1996. Website or online service for the web.

Description

A photo-sharing site whose 43 million photographs were due to be deleted when it closed in 1996.

Provenance

Captured by volunteers in the last 5 weeks before the service closed. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
38d945d6c76dab51932c0f398bacfff2c9575c5fe11c6e7d4c299dbc71c9b790
Last verified
Oct 30, 2026, by Vigil
Emulation profile
LZE-WEB1-4 · lz-browser core
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
None. Captured over the network.

Access

Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-WEB1-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the web.

Cite as: Drift Media, DriftSnap (1993–1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-00782.

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