Description
A subscription online service with 39 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2002 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 6 weeks before the service closed. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. All files were recovered; 22 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
f785b2bd017855e03c72a631ae6c81f469e01c56004e6c177a74c5bbaaa61aec- Last verified
- Aug 27, 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: Tessel Online Services, Tessel Online (1997–2002). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03627.