Description
A subscription online service with 192 thousand members at its peak. It closed in 2004 with thirty days’ notice.
Provenance
Captured by volunteers in the last 2 weeks before the service closed. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
27e59912785b90fdda0b681d406e792822864e601715126b8cd18605455d659f- Last verified
- Oct 6, 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 Online Services, Drift Online (1996–2004). Lazarus Archive, LZ-05482.